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Yeah.. I have a couple of questions about the ending..

posted 10 years ago by dokha
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I mean i dont buy it; its offending to me that they think ill buy that cheap 2 minutes so i can accept it as a decent movie..

so what the hell is this chemical he used to drug the prince and to revive the girl, there is no background info on this whatso ever.. and ok i accept that she wasnt really dead, so she woke up after that , THEY DIDNT NOTICE THE MISSING CORPSE??

AND like what the hell; embeded diamond dont fall out like that, if uve seen diamond embeded in anything it CANONT be extracted , like u have to do some damage to whatever its embeded in.the sword, its not a toy, they made me feel like it was.

any comments?

[–] dokha 10 years ago

not to mention the prince killed himself when he was innocent :s

[–] death_2_arthur 10 years ago

Innocent of her murder, not innocent of high treason (and possibly another girls murder)

As for the other points: not everything needs to be spelled out. It's already a fairly exposition heavy movie.
Like the drug that brought her back... similar to Shakespeare no?

[–] Ranman1987 9 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrodotoxin Can put you out for days and make you seem to be dead, but you can revived if you don't commit to lethal doses. Burials could also take place in any sort of way in the 19th Century including open burials where you were placed in a tomb. Easy to simply revive her and let her be on her way.

The chemical that was used was something similar to a date-rape drug. Your subconscious can still act, but you don't have any recollection of events that took place and he probably woke up dazed as hell.

Third, it wasn't a diamond, it was an emerald. It's important to note that Leopold's sabre was a ceremonial one. Any hard contact against a surface could jar any of the gems present on the sword loose and it was never meant to be used in a combat situation (although it could have should the need arise). It's not that hard to pry one of the stones loose. I don't know why you think it is.