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One major flaw in the premise

posted 11 years ago by Lightbrand
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Sly's job is to test prison security. Fine.
His way of doing so is by demonstrating he's ability to escape them. Fine.

Okay but how does that "help" the prison in terms of improving their security? Sure they can fix that "one" problem Sly figured out/exploited to get out. But does that mean if he were to put him in the prison again he would not have been able to break out ever again?

If so then how'd they know if they don't try it again and again and again,(maybe they did, but that seems hardly plausible since everyone would be in on the trick by then and things would get unnatural.)

Sly's whole business works better as a magic show, show rather than explain. Rather help solving, it's just showing them what they did wrong.

Anyone else felt that was weird?

[–] CjjjHill 11 years ago

As what was explained in the directors extended cut, he broke out of each prison for the additional bonus money but he made the report to show several different ways that particular prison could be breached. He just used one of the avenues to show an application example of his report. The off the books prison is a culmination of all of his issues with all other prison assessments.

[–] relaxedrob 11 years ago

I was thinking about how much of Sly's advice a prison would take each time. There are diminishing returns in spending more and more money fixing up problems until you find that you are spending millions just to fix a problem that will likely never arise - or it does occur, the cost to recover from it is far less than the cost to prevent it in the first place.

[–] gregopego12 11 years ago

That makes sense.

[–] Redux006 11 years ago

Well, he does expose all the weakest links. So he might be able to break out again, but normal prisoners would be a lot less likely to.

[–] donluzman2 11 years ago

You make a good point. After that first break-out, I was also thinking that the main advice for the prison should seem to be to simply "watch the prisoner more".

[–] mark6785 11 years ago

i dont get the op point, or any of the replies. its testing everyting needs testing, often multiple times.

" Rather help solving, it's just showing them what they did wrong. "
isnt that 90% of solving?

[–] donluzman2 11 years ago

It’s right up there, in the OP’s post: If they fixed all the problems after the first time he broke out, he would theoretically not be able to escape a second time. Yet, he remains the guy who „always escapes“.

[–] Lightbrand 11 years ago

He showed us ONE (1) way of escaping, then the gig's up. Did that solve the prison's problem with security?

Yeah sure they'll able to fix that one escape plan that Sly used. Does that mean there's literally no more way Sly can escape? How can they ever know if they don't keep sending Sly back into the same prison again and again and again? But it'll be difficult after the first time since everyone will be in on the jig and knows who he is.

[–] razlakh 11 years ago

Who the hell puts the security keypad within arm distance of their arm slot anyways

[–] bigal_a 11 years ago

All you would need is a metal plate to the right of the keypad.

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[–] zerodarkforty 11 years ago

hahahaha right

[–] willydoe71 11 years ago

But you only saw one example of his breakout. For all we know, in his other breakouts he may have exposed numerous ways to escape. The one we saw in the movie was just for us, the audience, to better understand what he does and how he does it.

[–] timelikeinfinity 11 years ago

I agree completely. Ultimately, if they kept fixing each problem, and kept putting him in the same prison over and over to test it, sooner or later he would never be able to escape. So it is more of a "magic show", as you say.

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