I was wondering if anybody else knew that there was a gun in the violin case. I figured it out pretty quickly and I wasn't sure if he was gonna shoot Barbara Jean or the presidential candidate, but I saw it coming. All those references to Kennedy and the mysterious unopened violin case (commonly used to carry weapons and things in gangster movies.) Was that obvious to anyone else or am I just a genius?
shareUm, GENIUS!
sharethat's what I thought too
shareI thought it was obvious.
I think cassandra kubrick could be the sexiest name ever.(:
yeah i got it too
shareInteresting to compare with the following year's "Taxi Driver" where we think Bickle is going to shoot the politician.
I used to want to change the world. Now I just want to leave the room with a little dignity.
Well to be fair Bickle was going to shoot the politician it just didn't work out for him due to security...killing pimps is just way easier
Even the most primitive society has an innate respect for the insane.
But why was he attempting to assasinate a country singer? I knew there was a gun in the case but I thought for definite he was after the presidential candidate.
shareI thought he was suspicious because he didn't play an instrument and sing like most of the others. If it was a violin case, it made him seem more odd. A fiddle, yeah, but a violin was more of a classical instrument.
shareI think he was after fame, not any one in particular. He may have had a hazy idea that shooting Walker would be the ticket to making him famous, but something in Barbara Jean's performance flipped the switch in his head.
I think the key to understanding Kenny is Arthur Bremer, who had originally planned to assassinate Nixon in 1972, before deciding it was too difficult and reluctantly switching targets to George Wallace. He had written in his diary: "They never heard of Wallace in Russia or anyplace. Editors will say: "Wallace dead? Who cares." If something big in Nam flares up, it'll end up at the bottom of the first page. He won't get more than three minutes on the network T.V. news."
I ask you, Velvel, as a rational man: which of us is possessed?
When we always saw him carrying the case, but never holding a violin/fiddle I then assumed he was carrying a weapon it.
"My name is Paikea Apirana, and I come from a long line of chiefs stretching all the way back to the Whale Rider."