The Jackals mistakes

I'm watching this right now.

1. He wasn't driving fast, he was tired, as shown by him yawning, and the other car was driving on the wrong side of the road as he came around a bend.

2. That was his cover at the time and it wasn't blown yet.

3. To get past the security. He had papers that identified the rooming house.

4. Again, to stay in is cover story.


The one thing that bothered me is the climax, of the story, that is; What could Lebel have asked the policeman that would have given that instantaneous reaction? Why would a down on his luck wounded vet be that memorable? There would have been many like him at the parade. And an open window in August in 1962 Paris wouldn't have been that unusual.



This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.

5. When Lebel and the policman storm into the apartment, the Jackal shoots the policeman and then fumbles trying to put a bullet into the rifle to shoot Lebel. He should have dropped the rifle and overpowered Lebel. This was a guy, after all, who could seemingly kill people with a couple of karate chops.

On a side note and possible alternate ending. If the Jackal had succeeded in killing Lebel and then killed DeGaulle, how would he have escaped?

Drop everything, run down the stairs and into the streets before the police figured out where the shot came from?

Reassemble the rifle into the crutch, get back in disguise and hobble back down the stairs?

Other?

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One thing that struck me was that he didnt put his own number plates on the car that the two lovers having a picnic abandoned. It would be pretty obvious that they had been stolen when they returned to the car and they could have phoned the police to report this. They could have put two and two together and got the jackals new number plate and they already knew what type of car he drove.

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1. the bodyguard overheard the plans at the start.
2. he needed a small firearm in addition to his covert rifle.
3. Don't get involved in some strange woman who will shoot her mouth off.
4. Get enough sleep if you have a long motor trip ahead.
5. Don't volunteer information...like the building number you will shooting from to a checkpoint officer.

4. Actually, you can see him hesitate before he tells the man in the bathhouse. Also, he doesn't tell him, he answers his direct question. It's likely his methodology would be to always give the exact name that is on the papers he's traveling under - giving other names is hard to keep track of and, if found out, would attract suspicion.

1. Why drive like a banshee after you've painted your car and have new license plates?

Maybe you missed in the movie where he was yawning seconds before the accident.

2. Why use the name Duggan in registering for a room? Pay cash and use a phony name, any name.

Most hotels require ID. Back then, most required you to give them a passport. This was a nice hotel, he didn't have a choice. And he doesn't know that the name Duggan is blown yet.

3. Why tell the Paris cop the street address of where you are going to (as the one-legged veteran)?

He has to give an excuse to the cop. And the cop checked his ID anyway so he's going to know.


4. Why tell the man in the bathhouse, the name Per Lundquist, when you don't have to?

He's in character. He has no reason to fear giving that name.