In real life, Hansen took Cindy to his plane and while he was getting it ready, she got away, running towards the road. Hansen chased after her, but when he saw she flagged down a trucker and got in, he stopped the chase. The trucker brought Cindy to a nearby hotel where the desk clerk called police.
I kept waiting for that scene in the movie but it never came. I think it was so important.
They probably missed a lot of "important details", in order to make the movie easier to understand and not to give you too much information.
shareI spent the entire movie confused as hell as to how Cindy got away in the first place to make anything happen. Reviewing the beginning, it's a single line of dialog that explains it. The first few minutes are confusing actually. Fast cuts, loud and noisy. Multiple characters hammering out lines left and right. You're just sort of left knowing this girl is a victim. As soon as Cage comes in, we seem to have a typical procedural set up with a body found. My only criticism of the movie is it lacks focus in the first ten minutes.
"I said no camels, that's five camels, can't you count?"
I agree on the fast cuts and confusing beginning. But I can't agree with the OP. Sorry, but I don't think it matters or adds anything to the story on how exactly she got away. They explain in the movie that she got away while he got the plane ready. If she stopped a truck, a taxi, a family van, a rich guy in a porsche or if she run of by foot to the next hotel, house or Wal Mart is simply just not relevant enough to make it a scene. IMHO
I don't want to step on anybodies toes or be insulting, but after every movie that is based on true event, people fill the board with details that were not exactly the same in the movie and in reality. Remember that the movie is merely just BASED on the real story.
I think the scene described in the OP probably should have been included in the film. It would have added alot more immediacy to the scenes of Bob and Cindy encountering each other. As it is now in the film we know the theory behind what has happened, and Hudgens gives a very strong performance, but it would probably have helped the audience to have had a traumatic experience from her point of view to bring us more into her state of mind.
It wouldn't have needed to contain alot of details, just a good establishment of her perilous situation.
I do think it might have been wasted to have the scene in the beginning of the film since it would be such a cold open it would be hard to establish anything beyond the superficial fear of being chased, so perhaps it could have been shown somewhere around the middle of the film as Cindy and Holcombe are speaking.
I don't think it's a necessary scene since they explain it in the film, but for the sake of adding additional fear in the audience of the ferociousness of Bob, it would certainly have benefited that part of the story.
Agreed. I too was confused as to how she got away. That would have been a good scene and would help explain what happened.
shareReally, a traumatic experience from her point of view? You think that's necessary? We already knew she got away and others didn't. Sufficient.
shareI never knew about the story prior to watching this film and I understood how she got away when she explained it. I think the problem with movie adaptations is everyone will pick it apart no matter what they include or exclude. For example, someone would have surely complained about how her method of escape would have been "impossible" if any way was shown. The reality is she was able to save her own life by escaping and the exact method is irrelevant. If nothing else, it prevents a copycat (or another weirdo psycho) from creating a worse set-up for his/her victims by not seeing a possible way in which this woman escaped.
"Get busy living, or get busy dying." Andy (The Shawshank Redemption)
I felt the exact same way the first 10 minutes or so, I was like "jeezus is it going to be like this the whole time?" but luckily it stopped. Great movie :)
I'm just so tired of the shaky cam crap these days, let it go already.
I thought the reason they left out that scene from the movie is so for us to form a opinion of the victim (who is a hooker btw ) just from her words. So that we may understand why the cop interrogating her didn't feel that her words didn't stand a chance against that of the upright church going Hansen.
share