MovieChat Forums > Jagged Edge (1985) Discussion > Things Learned From Jagged Edge

Things Learned From Jagged Edge

posted 14 years ago by dcavalli
40 replies | jump to latest

1. If you're going to kill your wife, make it look like some *beep* Charlie Manson did it.

2. Jack Forrester is not a psychopath. He is an ICEMAN. He is a MONSTER.

3. Owning horses will help get you laid.

4. Mr. Fabrizi likes the fact that Jack is a hunter.

5. Jack and Bobby Slade have the same-shaped head, which contributed to the confusion at the end of who the real murderer is.

6. If you're going to send anonymous notes, make sure you use an old typewriter with a distinctive, identifiable flaw (the elevated t's).

7. Although you own a mansion, you make no effort to hide the typewriter and keep it where your lover/lawyer is likely to discover it.

8. If you plan on being a witness at a murder trial, never assume the defendant kept and will produce letters you sent him that will undermine your testimony.

9. Corporate lawyers can barely handle hearings.

10. Eliminate the last incriminating witness (who is terrified of you) the same way you dispatched your wife.

11. Elected District Attorneys personally try major murder cases. (They don't in real life.)

12. Always assume that when your lawyer/lover figures out that you're the murderer, she didn't tell anyone or won't be waiting with a gun.

13. When you feel dirty (from a betrayal) and in the emotional sense, take a shower.

14. Joe Ezsterhas' villains can pass lie detector tests. (See also "Basic Instinct.")

15. When committing crimes, always wear the exact same outfit (ski mask, black jacket, blue plastic gloves).

16. When you dump someone's ashes in the water, always throw a couple of roses. (So the police and press who may have you under surveillance will buy that you're a grieving husband.)

17. Altough Krasny knew about Julie Jensen, he suspects that Jack attacked her 18 months earlier only after Teddy calls her to the stand.

18. Jack admits that he had one-night stands to Teddy, but can't admit a longer affair.

19. Teddy carries an extra set of clothes with her for trial.

20. Always listen to your burned-out and cynical best friend and lead investigator.

[–] rafaelblock 10 years ago

Right after you are attacked by a knife-weilding man in your bedroom and you shoot him multiple times until dead and then learn he was your latest lover, simply get up smiling and walk out of the room.

[–] jgroub 10 years ago

68. After an evening of non-stop fornication that leaves you so exhausted that you wake up at 3:30am, be a good guest and gather up those c@m-stained sheets and put them in the hamper. Because lord knows, the maid isn't going to do it. She's dead.

I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.

[–] januaryjoy_83 9 years ago

If you are sitting in the dark your private investigator partner will automatically assume that you are playing with yourself.

[–] kindheart02 9 years ago

69. Be SO prepared when you murder your wife, that you brush up on all possible poetry quotes so when your divorce layer quotes one, you will instantly blurt out the author's name, wooing her from the first meet-up.

[–] LolaVerdon (131) 5 years ago

As one does.