get your The Passenger DVD and que it up to 17:20.
watch in between Robertson's legs at his left thigh!
i didn't notice it until watching it for the third time, listening to the second commentary.
***SPOILER***
do you think this is what killed Robertson, or the spider just happpened to be on set?
neither Jack or the screenwriter said anything about it in their commentaries...
there's a continuity goof in this scene as well... one moment the chess set is near his upper body then a cut and it's down by his legs!
shareThere are three possible reasons for the chess set moving:
1) The lizard moved it.
2) It's actually a jump-cut and in between Locke decided to challenge Robertson to a game of chess, figuring this would be his best chance of beating him.
3) It's a jump-cut and in between Locke decided to challenge the lizard to a game of chess.
I noticed something move before and it's a lizard not a spider. It's at 16:55 on mine, I've got the UK region DVD which plays at a slightly quicker speed. At 17:20 on mine Locke has just picked up the gun.
1) Did the lizard have anything to do with Robertson's death?
Errrr, obviously not because Robertson had a heart condition and shouldn't have been drinking. He was drinking and guess what? He had a heart attack.
You can't blame that on the lizard.
2) Why does neither Nicholson or Mark Peploe talk about the lizard?
Because it's a lizard and not worth talking about would be my guess...
is the heart condition alluded to in the film?
i haven't seen it since i posted that almost a year ago.
Yes. Locke asks Robertson if he has any family and Robertson replies:
'No. No family, no friends. Just a few commitments, including a bad heart, I really shouldn't be drinking... How about another one?'