This entire film appears to take place over the course of three nights and two days without anyone ever taking a moment of downtime to sleep (not to mention I don't think police investigators work 60-hour non-stop shifts). And they're still sharp as a tack & looking like a million bucks at the end. Sure, Jan!
shareDoesn't take over the course of three nights... it's months, maybe even a year. The movie makes references to the passing of time along the way.
And you totally missed the fact they literally show Kimbal sleeping under a blanket of leaves.
But as Kimbal's under the leaves, those same police investigators are STILL hot on his trail! They never sleep. The movie is edited to make it look like they're ALWAYS right behind him at any given time. Where'd he sleep for the rest of the months?? He certainly couldn't stay in the apartment he rented because the landlords were immediately busted and ratted him out!
shareOf course the Marshall's are hot on his trail after that. They know he ended up in the river. There's only so many places he could be. It's like after the train wreck, they calculate how far he could possibly get and made a radius.
The u s marshals are always on to him Because he keeps Intentionally or unintentionally leaving breadcrumbs for them to follow. The cat mouse game all plays out pretty naturally an organically
I'm really not sure what you're asking for.... a montage of kimbal and Marshall's sleeping over a course of many months? What movie does this??
This is honestly such a weird nitpick
I got absolutely no sense of "many months" worth of time elapsing. I swear the editing makes it seem like a non-stop chase over the course of three nights and two days.
shareIt certainly comes across that way, although I think a couple of scenes could allow a day or two to be jammed inbetween.
shareThe poster you replied to is talking nonsense, the hunt does not take place over a year or even months. It's probably more like a week or so, a couple of weeks at most. He is right about Kimble sleeping in one scene, though. We also know he rents an apartment that he returns to. But other than that, I agree that they never seem to be sleeping or even resting and are always running around with incredible energy (after the one continuous chase that ends with Ford jumping off the dam, Jones is shown running over a wall like he's on coke or something. Ford also immediately starts running again after almost dying).
I was thinking the exact same thing as you while watching the movie last week. I'm quite sure those who made the movie were aware as well and Tommy Lee Jones' remark at the end about needing a rest was a reference to this.
Thank you! Also the fact that the same few police investigators are ALWAYS working adds to the illusion that it's all one continuous chase since none of them ever seem to get a day off. And their sense of urgency to find Kimble is too high for the search to have been going on for weeks or months. Everything they do throughout the entire movie is done with immediate urgency as if he'd just escaped.
share"The movie makes references to the passing of time along the way."
Which references suggest the passing of months?
I'm sure that's about how the US Marshalls operate is on very little sleep in an effort to get the job done
shareNot only does Kimball sleep but he stops to take a pee when we see him in the local hospital as he walks away from the restroom and the deputy hints to him to zip up his fly. Can't include all the material filmed as it would be hundreds of hours of footage. Some producers are better than others as to creating a sense of time passing. Some such as Star Trek's Gene Roddenberry preferred highlighting dramatic scenes over building a story at times. Anyways, unless stopping to eat, go to the rest room, or taking a nap advances a story there is little point in showing those moments.
shareI always thought it was a week or two at the most.
shareI guess that’s why they never showed Jack Bauer (Kieffer Sutherland) stopping to take a leak in the show 24. ;)
shareThis is either a troll or you’re actually mentally handicapped
shareNo, I'm neither. Care to refute my OP?
shareThere’s no way you watched the movie and thought it took place over 2 days. It’s about a full year you complete troglodyte
share"It’s about a full year"
Prove it or else you're the complete troglodyte.
So you didn’t watch the movie? Makes you dumb cunt
shareProve it's a full year or you're the dumb cunt. It should be simple if you've watched the movie, right?
shareThe movie takes place over several months to a year. It’s clear by dialogue, holidays, and changing of seasons. Now go back to fucking your father
shareWhat dialogue, what other holidays, what seasons? It's obviously winter throughout the entire movie and we never see it's Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Halloween.
shareSo you didn’t watch the movie, hahahaha scumbag.
shareThe OP has inferred that none of these characters sleep, just because we never see them do so, and by doing so implies he'd prefer such a thing being depicted in the movie
We can only hope he doesn't have similar desires when it comes to these characters never being shown taking a shit at any point in the movie
The only holiday shown is St. Patrick's Day, which is in March in winter. Now prove there are other holidays featured that show the passage of months or you're the scumbag who did not watch the movie and fucks both his mother and father at the same time.
shareHow you typing with your fingers in your fathers asshole?
shareIs that supposed to be English? I guess we can blame that and your low IQ on your parents being brother and sister.
But no actual retort, huh? Thanks for proving you're the scumbag who did not watch the movie and fucks both his mother and father at the same time.🍆
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Well, I think Richard Kimble took a nap in his apartment he rented and was in a state of dream before the Chicago PD came crashing through the door upstairs in arresting the son for being a Pedophile
shareI can understand you thinking that but the movie starts in January and ends in March a few days after St. Patrick's Day. There's no way Kimble did all those things in the hospital in just a week. Also though it's never shown the U.S Marshals did sleep. They just didn't show it cause it would have slowed the film down. For instance here's no way Gerard and his men all went to deal with Copeland (with Gerard killing him) and then all went back to their office. They probably did all go home and sleep. I'm pretty sure it's the next day when Gerard is on the phone talking to his superior about shooting Copeland.
shareWell the movie did a terrible job of conveying the passage of time then.
shareThey literally mention it at the end of the film... 😂
shareThe amount of time that passes has always been a bit vague. The one-armed man makes reference to being "questioned a year ago" after Kimble breaks into his home. Lentz was presumably alive when Kimble was sent to prison and Kimble is surprised when he finds out "Lentz died last summer". So we can only assume Lentz died while Kimble was on the run otherwise he would have heard about it during his court case. That would suggest Kimble was at least on the run for some months.
share...which then makes it seem absurd how the law enforcement is so urgently chasing him the entire time, as if the prison break just happened and time is of the essence. There's no way they'd have kept that feverish pace for months. The urgent pace at which they do everything is a big reason why this movie feels like it's all happening over a very short span of time.
shareThe pace of the movie is supposed to feel fast, of course it comes at the expense of realism.
share"There's no way they'd have kept that feverish pace for months."
You are correct. People are drawing conclusions based on incorrect assumptions. Lentz obviously died while Kimble was in prison. The trial and the preparation obviously must have taken quite some time.
"So we can only assume Lentz died while Kimble was on the run otherwise he would have heard about it during his court case."
No, I think that's an incorrect assumption. Lentz died while Kimble was awaiting trial. He just never heard about it because he wasn't a personal friend and was too busy with his murder trial which at the time seemed totally unrelated to Lentz's activities.
Maybe so but you said Lentz died while Kimble was in prison, Kimble didn't even go to prison.
There are several clues that allude to Kimble being on the run for several weeks possibly months too. Gerard makes a passing comment that he wants Kimble to re-enter his life again. There is a montage of Gerard interviewing Kimble's former colleagues. We also see Kimble's dyed black hair change back to its natural colour. Kimble's research clearly took some time too, masquerading as a janitor to zero in on Sykes. The tissue samples that Kimble and Jane Lynch were examining, don't just happen over night either. Then the climax at the medical convention, that would be silly to suggest Kimble solved the entire thing then confronted Nichols at a convention that just happened to take place 3 days after Kimble escaped.
Obviously, the film is intentionally edited in such a way that it makes it seem like it happened within a week but clearly did not.
"Maybe so but you said Lentz died while Kimble was in prison, Kimble didn't even go to prison."
You're really going to argue semantics (in a different post)? Fine, "pre-trial detention in jail" then. But you know what, he could've been out on bail. There was no need for anyone to inform him Lentz had died.
"There is a montage of Gerard interviewing Kimble's former colleagues."
That could easily have happened in a couple of hours, especially if Gerard was in a hurry.
"We also see Kimble's dyed black hair change back to its natural colour."
As a woman who regularly dyes her hair, I can tell you that doesn't necessarily mean anything. One, it could've been a temporary dye. Two, if you dye your hair a darker color, it can quickly fade back to a lighter color after a few washings.
"Kimble's research clearly took some time too, masquerading as a janitor to zero in on Sykes. The tissue samples that Kimble and Jane Lynch were examining, don't just happen over night either."
I did not get the impression those things took quite some time, but I would have to see the movie again. It seems unlikely Kimble would be able to spend much time at the hospital with Gerard looking out for him there.
"Obviously, the film is intentionally edited in such a way that it makes it seem like it happened within a week but clearly did not."
In no way am I arguing that it all happened within a week, but I do very much disagree it lasted several months or even as much a year as some say. There is no reason for such quick editing if the chase lasted that long.
Police interviews with people don't take a "couple of hours". You have to track people down, organize a convenient time that doesn't conflict with employment schedules etc etc. Those interviews easily could have taken weeks.
Yes, I've heard the argument that Kimble used a temporary dye but it would make zero sense for him to use a dye that would only last a few days, Kimble was surely smarter than that. 2ndly, he died his hair black. I have similar hair colour to Ford and I dyed my hair black for years. Permanent black dye lasts until your hair grows out. That can take months depending on how long you keep your hair.
"In no way am I arguing that it all happened within a week,"
The OP thought the whole film takes place in 3 days because "no one sleeps" even though Kimble is seen sleeping at least twice. That is beyond stupid.
"Police interviews with people don't take a "couple of hours"."
If it was a "police interview", they would be at the police station. They were in a hurry to find a potentially dangerous fugitive. It was all done at the hospital, they just wanted to find out where he could be. It was not about collecting evidence and witness statements. I won't pretend to be some expert, but I watch The First 48 Hours and on that show they'll make a few short phone calls to friends and relatives to find a suspect on the run without ever getting up from their chair.
"but it would make zero sense for him to use a dye that would only last a few days"
Well, if that was all that was available at the night shop, gas station, wherever he bought it. Or maybe he wanted to save his money (a lack of funds is also something that suggests to me that he wasn't on the run for months). If he really did care that much about changing his hair color long term, he could've easily bought some new dye, which he obviously didn't.
I died my hair black once and it was medium brown after two washings. That's my experience, though I'm not saying all dyes are like that.
"Permanent black dye lasts until your hair grows out."
But it doesn't actually grow out now, does it? It simply fades back to his own natural color. No light roots or whatever. And neither does his hair seem to grow longer.
I'll accept that his hair fading is meant to suggest the passage of time (instead of some continuity problem that happened while filming). But I don't think it suggests months. I mean, it's so obvious it all takes place in the same winter. And none of the other characters ever change their appearance.
And hey, who knows, maybe he dyed his hair back to brown once the police discovered his new appearance.
"The OP thought the whole film takes place in 3 days because "no one sleeps" even though Kimble is seen sleeping at least twice."
I already pointed that out to the OP, no need to bring that up in our discussion.
"movie starts in January and ends in March a few days after St. Patrick's Day."
If you mean the murder, that took place in the previous year. There was the whole trial that took place inbetween. Dr. Lentz died in the summer while Kimble was in jail.
Ummm Kimble in on the run for about a year and a half....... 😏
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