What did Mike Terry & that lawyer chick say to each other at the end where it made the lawyer chick slap Mike Terry?? Any theories???
Also, y go through all the trouble just to screw Mike Terry's life???
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The most likely answer for what the two characters were talking about is Mike told the lawyer he was disillusioned and giving up, and she offered the standard female slap-the-wavering-hero response.
It's not a conspiracy to screw over Mike. Chet, Jerry, and both wives are all working independently with their own agendas, it just so happens that all of them involve screwing over Mike in some way. Chet's a chump being used by the people around him, namely Jerry the corrupt agent and possibly his wife. Jerry smelled money with the marbles thing and ripped it off, also he's the one that actually sent the watch--he bought one that fell off the truck to save money. He bails at the restaurant and presumably advises Chet to not talk to Mike anymore when he realizes he could be fingered for the watch. At some point Mike's wife decided she cared more about money than her husband (princess and soldier speech), and told Jerry about the window (leverage in case Mike causes trouble) in exchange for being able to do business with Chet's wife and resulting publicity.
Basically this movie is about a very idealistic guy who believes in "Hollywood honor" drowning in a sea of corrupt weasels. The cop is just collateral damage.
Well said.
shareI imagine their conversation went something along the lines of:
MIKE: I'm going. It's fixed. My wife sold me out. I can't trust anyone. There is no honour in this fight. I'm going home. I give up.
EMILY: You want to tell me about honour? You want to tell me about trust? I was RAPED. I had no faith in people or in myself. But then you told me there is always an escape. There is no situation that you cannot turn to your advantage. If you control yourself, you control the fight. Right now you're getting choked out, and you THINK there's no escape. There is ALWAYS an escape. That's what you said! How dare you tell me that you 'give up.' There is no giving up. I didn't give up on myself after I was RAPED, so who the hell are you to give up on yourself right now? Get back in there. And END this.
Actually, I don't think Mike and Emily needed to exchange so many words between them-- or possibly any words at all. Sometimes whole conversations like this can take place between characters without the need for words, and the audience still 'gets' it (so long as they've been paying sufficient attention to the relationship developed between the characters in the movie up that point). It's all subtext. Like in the way that when Mike is being choked from behind at the climax and then sees the Professor/Grandmaster in the bleachers, you just KNOW-- without needing to hear any kind of voiceover-- that the thought in his head is an echo of his and his grandmaster's mantra "there is always an escape." I think the conversation between Mike and Emily happened the same way. No words needed to be actually spoken by the characters for the above subtext to have been communicated between them.
It was a powerful moment in the film and it really worked for me because I heard the convo along the above lines in my head.