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court scene question

posted 17 years ago by thisismynick
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Ok, I'm a little confused about something. When the girls are at their trial with Yankee Hank and after the boy stands up that was the waiter at the Fancy hotel they snuck into, Hank tells Darlene and Alice that the court knows that they snuck into the hotel and put their drinks on someone elses tab and that demonstrates that they are of low character.

What I'm confused about is that I was under the impression that the girls didn't get caught (they came close though) because Nick Parks (the smuggler dude) apparently overheard the girls talking with the waiter and decided to tell said waiter that the girls were staying with him in his room and signed off on their tab.

(hope that makes sense)

Am I right on this, maybe a possible plot hole, or did I miss out on any dialogue that explained this??

I admit I could be wrong as I've seen this movie 4 or 5 times now, but never seem to catch it completely from beginning to end.

Love this movie but it scares the crap out of me as this would be a nightmare situation to be in, prison in a foreign country with a foreign language and possibly being tricked into signing a confession.

*sorry this was kinda long*
thank you

[–] modonnell7 17 years ago

I don't think it was Nick's key either. I think he said he found the key. They must have realized that when the real guest complained. I too have seen it several times, but never the whole thing at once. I thought it was a very good movie though.

[–] yoshimi_420 17 years ago

Good point. I think what you're missing, however, is the fact that "Nick Parks" is viewed by the police and the court as an imaginary character that the girls made up as nobody was able to find any information on the guy (including the hotel) under that name. So, although he saved them momentarily from the hotel managers, as soon as Parks vanished - the girls were screwed.
Does that makes sense?

-i solemnly swear that i am up to no good.

[–] JC_Aliss 17 years ago

What DOESN'T make sense is why didn't Hank use the fact that some random man had signed for the girls' drinks. Why didn't the waiter remember that? He was angry until "Nick" claimed them as his roommates. Wouldn't he, at the very least, say "they were there with some guy?"

[–] purple-passion 17 years ago

Yes I do agree with above poster, why didn't he remember that both girls were with some guy, although I'm sure he signed some bogus name. He did "find" the key, it was not his he got it off some guy who left it in the bathroom. They didn't get caught persay, but when they went back to the hotel to question employees that's all the guy remembered was that they TRIED to charge drinks to someone else. Lying yes but it didn't actually happen. My question is after Nick Parks signed for the drinks he left them, and they followed, if they hadn't gone after him none of this would have happened. I'm not sure I would have followed some stranger even if they had 'saved' me from potential trouble. Even after they got caught, wouldn't the hotel just have asked them to leave anyway??

[–] dantheman85 17 years ago

It was extremely stupid to do that in the first place. Had they just paid for the drinks nothing else would have happened.

[–] Deannie308-2 17 years ago

There you go!Alice may have been my favorite one.
But she should've let Darlene pay for the drinks.I
know I would've!

[–] RCeditor 17 years ago

It does seem to me that the clerk from the hotel and the signature on the bar bill would have proven the girls' story about Nick Parks's existence.

Even when the clerk caught them in the lie, they still had the opportunity to offer to pay in cash. When the boy asked, "What's your name?", Alice could have replied, "OK, fine, we'll just pay cash!" or something to that effect.

-The Divine Ms Slim

"I make him an offer he no refuse"