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One scene that may or may not have been played correctly...

posted 17 years ago by TMundo
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...the look on Cobb's face when our would-be hero tells him that he's gotten intimate with the model. Cobb gets this revolting look on his face before he beats him up. This 'look' I suppose is there because Cobb is also involved with the model and has feelings for her. But wait, Cobb is playing the model as well. He wants him to get involved with the model, he's only pretending to be angry. I thought his anger over the matter was too serious, should it have looked fake? How exactly would it look fake? I dunno, it was the one scene I noticed that would play different in retrospect. Thoughts?

[–] sdckapr 17 years ago

...the look on Cobb's face when our would-be hero tells him that he's gotten intimate with the model. Cobb gets this revolting look on his face before he beats him up. This 'look' I suppose is there because Cobb is also involved with the model and has feelings for her. But wait, Cobb is playing the model as well. He wants him to get involved with the model, he's only pretending to be angry. I thought his anger over the matter was too serious, should it have looked fake? How exactly would it look fake? I dunno, it was the one scene I noticed that would play different in retrospect. Thoughts?

I presumed it was fake anger over the young man telling Cobb he was involved with one of their victims. Part of the "anger" was also so they could have a "falling out" so the young man would rob the safe by himself.

I don't think it should have looked fake, it was meant to convince the young man as well as us.

[–] Rishi_B 16 years ago

His anger is probably what made him go through with it

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[–] kylebryant50 16 years ago

I think the look of anger is real. Just like how he asked her why she did it. He was playing her and didn't want her, but he didn't really want anyone else to have her either. It was hard for him to keep all of his emotions for her out of it and might have made it a little easier to kill her.

[–] psdhart 15 years ago

I think Cobb did not like Bill and in gthat scene we see what his real feelings are

[–] daveyh (641) 4 years ago

another moment for me is when they rob Bill's flat, and they're talking about the typewriter and Cobb says "no, this guy WANTS to be a writer....there's a.....diff..erence" as if it's dawning on him at that moment that they're in Bill's flat, when really he's known from the beginning that it's Bill's place.