Maybe I'm missing something... but how in the heck did the car end up on the roof at the end? How can Mr. Ratner be such a bad film maker that he doesn't even explain or show how the car ended up on the roof, after it was stuck on the elevator??? That's the one thing I wanted to see the most, and of course, Ratner, being the terrible director that he is, didn't even explain or show what happened.
shareNevermind THAT. How did they take it apart and mail the pieces to everyone? How did they decide who got which parts? Poor Lester got the steering wheel, which was mostly wood but the old lady got a huge wheel! No fair!
shareAgreed, and what the hell were they supposed to do with the pieces then? Trying to sell gold in that quantity in ingots would attract a lot of attention, let alone moulded into car parts.
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Maybe I'm missing something... but how in the heck did the car end up on the roof at the end?
They took it back the same way they got it out.
Nevermind THAT. How did they take it apart and mail the pieces to everyone? How did they decide who got which parts? Poor Lester got the steering wheel, which was mostly wood but the old lady got a huge wheel! No fair!
Maybe, but on the other hand it adds a touch of realism. Obviously it's much easier to disassemble a care in its natural pieces than to hack it into equally valuable chunks, all the while trying to keep the employees in the Tower unaware of their presence. However, it looked to me as though everyone got at least a few million dollars worth...enough to retire comfortably.
Agreed, and what the hell were they supposed to do with the pieces then? Trying to sell gold in that quantity in ingots would attract a lot of attention, let alone moulded into car parts.
Were the FBI even looking for the car? Did they ever find out that it was made of gold? Why would Shaw tell them? It would just add evidence of his guilt. At least with just the ledger, he could at least hope that his lawyers discount it as a forgery. Or his lawyers could claim that the ledger was illegally obtained evidence and so inadmissible in court. Remember, he's a chess player!!
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That steering wheel was a "few million dollars worth" of gold?
Just for sh*ts and giggles I looked up the current gold value (according to the sites I saw after 30 seconds of Googling) and it would take roughly 80 lbs of gold to be worth $2 million.
Nothing those people were taking out of the boxes at the end seemed to weigh 80 lbs.
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Lester should've gotten the car door, that would've made more sense :)
shareA possibility on how they got the car on the roof: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471042/board/thread/204880248?d=204880248 #204880248
But this one's eating my popcorn!
Remember, I think a few people got more than one piece of car part
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I always wondered that as the last time you see the car its on top of the elevator, so they had to reverse the whole thing back into the lower room then back out the window and up tp the penthouse.
however the window cleaner pulley which they was using only goes to roof height not above so they couldn't of winched it up and over the wall then into the pool.
Plus when the car was sill on top of the elevator the FBI was coming into the building as they had already seen the room with the car gone.