i presume most of the target audience for this movie is too young to actually remember the actual hijacking being a news item. but the makers of the film surely knew that the hijacker was not named D.B.- the plane's manifesto listed him as Dan Cooper. someone in the press mistakenly called him D.B. and it stuck. if the 3 main characters were such D.B. Cooper buffs, they would have known this.
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Okay but they were a bunch of kids when it happened. I heard about DB Cooper from the history Channel and I am familiar with DB not Dan. So it seems to be a common mistake. On the show Prison Break, they take about "D.B." Cooper not "Dan" Cooper as well.
shareI think using the DB term was the correct route to go.
"They're all dead.....they just don't know it yet." - Eric Draven
I think its just one of those cases where the myth becomes more "real" than the man, think Vlad the Impaler, I mean how many people really know his real name was Vlad Tepes.
You will all taste oblivion... Which tastes like Red Bull.... Which is disgusting!
I mean how many people really know his real name was Vlad Tepes.
Correcting his name would have taken 5 minutes of film and slowed it down. I've been a D.B. Cooper buff since the actual hijacking, but I have always said, "D.B. Cooper" when referring to him.
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