don't understand...


i don't get the whole part with Howard D. Doyle and their pre-nup. Can someone explain?

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Marilyn needed revenge so she dug up Donavan, the now homeless producer, and hired Howard Doyle to be in on a revenge plot against Miles. Knowing that Miles was enamored by her, the got 'married'. It all fell into place when Howard ate the pre-nup and Miles realized how attracted he was to such a devious lady. Miles married Marylin and seeing right through her motives for marrying Howard and how she was apparently falling in love with him, Miles fell for her plot and tore up his pre-nup....only later did he realize Howard was just an actor. Its typical Coen brother's stuff where a plot to deceive gets uncovered.

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haha ohh okay.

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The idea is, she has to get Miles to think that she's richer than he is, so she can marry him, tear up the pre-nup, and then take half of everything he's got. It backfires because Rex Rexroth dies with an outdated will, and suddenly she is richer than Miles.

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The thing that I don't understand is why he was enamored with her in the first place. She was an evil, ice-cold bitch through the whole movie. He should have his head examined for feeling anything good for or about her at all.

I have no taste, but that just means there's less of a chance that I'll get eaten

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What the hell. She looked like Catherine Zeta Jones. On a more serious level, it felt like his lawyering was "playing a game," and he saw what she was doing as playing a game. And, of course, he wanted to play with her.

Oops, that wasn't so serious after all!

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