...Keep his money? I know it was inside of him somehow, but how on earth did he get it out? It just seemed that someone would say "that'll be $2000 please" and Dega would go around the corner and come back with a *steaming* pile of money! Is that even possible??
Ps, loved the film by the way, I'm just curious about that one particular point
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Uhm, it's simple.
He pooped.
I don't think it's quite that simple; it always struck me as a plot hole, or, if you prefer, an element calling for willing suspension of disbelief.
Sure, "he pooped" works like a charm for a day or two... but at least 7 years, as depicted? All the money would have been excreted while Dega was still in the hold of the prison-bound ship... then what conceivable safe-keeping options is our bookish hero left with?
Even then the normal human digestive process would not be gentle on any paper currency, probably rendering it unusable, let alone not particularly, um, user/payee-friendly. Now, he could have swallowed the stash inside some container (a la drug mule couriers), but we still come back to the same time problem, unresolved.
Unless, well, you want to believe that he kept alternating between swallowing and dumping the same container over and over again, all those years. (Bon Appétit!) Pardon me, I'm starving... gotta break for lunch now.
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PS Apparently, this is, in fact, explained in the book: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070511/board/flat/71371798
So, a container of sorts, yes, but no swallowing involved...
Could he not have just stuck it back up his bottom rather than swallowing again?
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You guys should definetley read the book, which is far far better than the film.
They (Papillion too) used a charger which is in his case 2 peices of aliminuim tube that screw together in the middle. Inside you put anything, he puts a blade in, diamonds too as well as cash.
At one point he shoves 2 chargers in him!
You insert it really far up your bottom, so far that inspections can't find it. But a lot of cons got killed and their guts cut open to get the chargers or see if there was one, by other prisoners.
What became of him in real life?
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