Was the taxi ride necessary?
It was a 3 minute ride from the train station to the hotel. Why bother letting Johnny Depp take a taxi ride to the hotel. Why not just drive there yourselves.
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My guess is they didn't want any connection to him. If the plan had succeeded and he ended up shooting the governor the FBI would trace back his steps, who'd he arrive with? How'd he get there? The chances were greater of them being spotted with him had he exited their vehicle and someone happened to see
They'd then be linked to the crime. A search would be put out for the van in connection to the assassination.
Letting him take a taxi gets that out of the way. That way he was just some nutcase a taxi driver picked up from the train station. All hands are clean.
very good response ethan. however didnt watson go back and forth to the van like 2 times. i havent seen it in a while but im certain he went back to the van to try to get his daughter but that lady had her at gunpoint right??? so if he had succeeded in the assassination they would have traced his steps back to those moments near the van.
shareRight there - that's one thing I thought was ridiculous all thru the movie. Walken is hanging all over him. He wasn't even trying to stay disconnected from him. Ugh this thing was weak.
shareEven the taxi driver was like man cant believe he wants a ride to a place so close. His expression when he said Man i can see it from here was pretty funny.
shareEven the taxi driver was like man cant believe he wants a ride to a place so close.True, the taxi -driver comments about the proximity. I think the premise is that Smith wants to get the ball rolling without delay and it allows the red herring of the" help message" on the card to take place.š share
Walken met with him a bunch of times, so they weren't trying to disconnect from him. I think the bigger plot hole was what governor has 3 rallies in the same morning in the same hotel? That is illogical. She also was able to go to sleep in her hotel room within her busy morning schedule? This movie was just awful, all around.
This movie was just awful, all around.
Silly, silly movie but I'll defend it
They were establishing a trail for future investigators to pick up on. Walken was seen with him but not by anyone who'd remeber their faces--except maybe the annoyed bartender (a gaffe thanks to Watson). They have the taxi ride, the footage from the tourists. Anyone else who tries to add testimony to the story could be ignored because guess who the investigators will be--most likely the same men who set up Watson in the first place.
The taxi ride was necessary if only to help establish the official story.
So you are assuming the hotel has no cameras...
shareAlso, how on Earth did Christopher Walken get a sense just in time and just on cue that Johnny Depp's character was about to ask the taxi driver for help, and then as soon as he says "I got a big problem", literally HITS the taxi with his van? Did he have Johnny Depp's character secretly bugged or was he just so good with timing?
And how would he NOT think that hitting the taxi car like that would draw attention to himself and possibly expose him, did the taxi driver even SUSPECT that as soon as he heard "I've got a big problem" and him getting hit by the van, that the problem may at least have something to do with it, and the fact that he had to write something whilst also give the money?
Yeah, the problem did indeed have nothing to do with his $3.50, he had his daughter kidnapped.
I love this movie. But, it takes a lot of suspension of disbelief to fully appreciate. There are so many wtf moments. The whole movie makes no sense if you try to think of it as a well thought out assassination plot. But I'm a sucker for a movie set in real time.
shareThey put him in the cab so he would be seen arriving alone and specifically so he was not seen with them.
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