Okay, I understand he served a 'plot purpose' i.e. to inform us, the viewers and the cabin full of victims, about the past and Nazis etc.
(minor spoilers...)
I just wondered who he was and what he was doing camping out there if he knew it was so dangerous?
He was armed, so he must have expected something, yet he died seemingly so easily, it made him seem like an ordinary passer by?
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Him being there made no sense, just an excuse for the main characters to hear the story about the mountains they were on. Really stupid if you ask me.
This guy Bjørn Sundquist is a famous norwegian actor who is known for being a dick in all movies he's in. And this isnt his type of movie AT ALL, so its more a joke to the norwegians watching this movie.
shareWhat's more, he (like the GF at the start of the movie) had taken no nazi zombie treasure.Trog, none of the other protagonists had taken any treasure at the beginning of the movie either, when they started getting attacked. The zombies were just on a rampage until their treasure was returned to them, it's not like they were only targeting thieves.
Him being there made no sense, just an excuse for the main characters to hear the story about the mountains they were on. Really stupid if you ask me.When I'm walking alone in the woods and see someone else, I don't think to myself "That guy being there doesn't make any sense". People trek through mountains, forests, frozen tundras, sometimes for no other purpose than to be out in nature. Old dude could've had countless reasons for walking through there... share
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Yes they wanted the treasure, but they are still evil nazi zombies. They aren't gonna see this girl out skiing at night and help her find her way to the cabin in the dark. They are going to kill whoever they see!
We Are The Corps!! "Left the GL boards after two years when the trolls showed up."
Well there are people who like to go on these wilderness walks alone and they usually have a rifle with them for hunting and protection against wildlife.
I think his storytelling was mostly to show off and trying to scare the kids.
So I think they used him well.
"Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep."
Fran Lebowitz
He's kind of like a norwegian version of a Crocodile Dundee type treking around in the bush in Australia.
Probably saw the kids and decided he wanted fresh coffee.
They do? I know/have known (hahah) alot of people who don't/didn't.
Their loss I guess.
heh.
he was the exposition. there. that's it. he has no past, no future, no family, no friends. he serves to inform everyone of what's going to happen because the writer's too lazy to think of anything else, and then he dies.
baby can you dig your man?
he's a righteous man.
That's what I thought. I was hoping I was missing something a bit deeper.
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I am going with the person who said he is a big star in Norway who normally plays jerks. Kind of like Stephen Seagal showing up in a movie a few years ago and gets killed right away and the crowd cheers. Like he did in Executive Decision. I get it.
shareThey should have just hired Steven Stegal then.
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LOL Yeah but it was a Norwegian film. Maybe they should of edited the Norwegian man out and put Seagal in for American audiences.
shareUnexplained Wanderers show in in folk and fairy tales to tell people something they need to know, and are usually inclined to ignore...until it's too late. Who or what they are is seldom explained.
shareI don't think this movie was made to make sense. The treasure was "hidden" in that block house for 60 years but the zombies waited to get their stuff exactly for the time when said house is stuffed with yummy teenagers?
And don't tell me they were just on a killing spree and not going for the treasure. He let the last man go when he gave them the chest and only came back for him when they found out something was missing.
Perhaps these zombies were just very hungry and knew they wouldn't be able to enjoy their horde without muching on some toned teen flesh?
Or maybe they just got lost in the snow for 60 years?
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> The treasure was "hidden" in that block house for 60 years
And who built and uses that cabin right smack in the middle of zombie country? And zombie territory even extends all the way down to the end of the road near town.
The townsfolk should have known about the zombies and their hatred of the Nazis should have sent them out to hunt them down a long time ago.
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"What's more, he (like the GF at the start of the movie) had taken no nazi zombie treasure."
I don't agree here.
The way I see things is it was the GF who set it all off. She found (part of) the treasure while skiing across the mountains and brought it back to the cabin, hiding it in the beer storage space.
That's why her back-pack was later found right next to the cabin. The zombies tracked her and killed her, but failed to locate their belonings and thus started looking around, stumbling upon the old guy.
Smiling is for the weak.
Bingo, they make it seem for half the movie like she'd been grabbed on her way to the cabin, but the backpack find later shows she was already there and the zombies came after her after that. Perhaps on her way she had found their cave (full of frozen Nazis) and took the treasure - then they woke up, tracked her to the cabin, and it goes from there. Kind of like an old mummy movie (or Pirates of the Caribbean, I guess) - take the treasure, set off the curse which wakes the dead.
shareIf that was the case, that lone ranger dude would not have known about the zombies, neither would he have been attacked.
shareThe lone ranger dude didn't know there were packs of lethal zombies roaming around or he wouldn't have slept alone in a tent. He just knew the old stories and that there was something strange about. Maybe he sensed something wrong but of course did not know the extent of the real danger.
And he probably got attacked because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. We don't know that the zombies would only attack specific people - as it is, they attacked everyone who was in the area at the time. I don't get the sense that Nazi zombies are too concerned about avoiding collateral damage.