It was, like, the most random thing in a movie I've ever seen. They built it up to the point where, you KNEW what was gonna happen--girl on skateboad, two men holding large sheet of glass--but then the movie goes on, and NO ONE mentions poor Jenny's skateboard accident. WTF was THAT all about???
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About a year or so ago, I posted a message which dealt, in part, with this incident. It went as follows:
"I THINK (I'm not sure) that the incident with the skating girl crashing into the mirror (what happened to her we don't know--if it's even relevant) was supposedly witnessed by the killer.
Apparently, it reminded him of when his mother smashed the mirror with his father's picture (which we are shown again--the killer's own flashback it would seem). I believe that all this is meant to suggest that this somehow triggered the killer's homicidal impulses (which seemingly had been dormant for the previous 40 years, since he was a little boy).
That's what I got out of it anyway. Still, if this WAS what the filmmaker had in mind, it was expressed very poorly."
So, in a nutshell, I'd say that we're not told what happened to the girl simply because it was not germane to the story which followed.
Her accident was just a "trigger" event for the mayhem which was to come.
Thanks, and have a great day.
Sam
loved the music in that scene. good stuff. anyone know anything about it?
shareAnd...is the skateboard girl also the first college chainsaw victim??? They look and dressed alike.
shareThe 1st time I saw this movie I thought the same thing; the skateboard chick is the 1st victim (afterall, it's her photo with the red cross on it that the killer looks at). Why is it her? Way I see it, she smashed the glass in the skateboard accident, the killer - by chance - saw this and has his flashback triggered and views her as the 'mother' (the film then clumsily shows the dramatic, slow-motion flashback of the mother smashing the mirror in 1942, big hint). That's why skateboard gal's the 'head' of he killer's human puzzle, I guess.
Either that or it's just illogical, Eurotrash nonsense, I'll leave you guys to decide on your conclusions, hehe.
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yeah that was pretty random. But wtf was up with the kung fu guy?
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"yeah that was pretty random. But wtf was up with the kung fu guy?"
He was Kendall's teacher. I mean, doesn't everyone have a Kung-Fu professor who runs around at night surprising women? Must have been bad chop suey.
Hi, I have already posted on this matter but for some reason they were deleted. I am the scateboard girl so I can tell you first hand! You are right about the smashed mirror triggering the killer but a scene just after the mirror smash was cut out of the movie where the girl is standing amongst the broken mirror apoligising for the accident, so everyone can see she is fine. The next day the killer cuts off her head with a chainsaw and is the same girl. On another note.. I don't know if anyone has noticed at the end of the movie when the bookcase turns and the body falls out there are 2 different girls. I spent 2 days at the shoot as being the head of the corpse I swung round on the bookshelf and fell onto the actor. As they obviously want more flesh to be shown they cut it and used another girl for the fall but if you look carefully when the bookcase swings round it's me!!!
shareNow THAT makes more sense!Skateboard girl-I salute you!
shareThanks for the input skateboard girl. It's funny but interesting when someone associated with a film actually responds.
shareAwesome!! So cool the skateboard girl from this movie is on IMDb!
shareSurely if someone is on a skateboard and sees disaster coming then he or she has only to get off - this takes only a second; or am I missing something?
shareI thank you for your insight into this random scene. You know, I think it's the first "serious" take I've ever seen on the old "sheet of glass carried across road" gag.
shareShe wasn't very good at skateboarding, God love her. She had plenty of time to react but just screams and crashes into the glass.
I like the fact the actress Roxana Nieto has commented on IMDB and other forums about the film. She's 'jodancer'.