It made zero sense to me. It would have been a cool 2min scene but instead it turned into a maze of people throwing it around for no reason other than to look cool.
It felt like they were searching them again and again because they looked suspicious *because they were throwing it around* And a few time they threw it after being searched to a person about to be searched.
Fine movie, terrible scene.
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This really annoyed me: a person is searched while in possession of the card. They successfully make it through the search, the card is not discovered. So what do they do, now that are safe, out of the woods, so to speak? Throw the card to someone else.... WHILE THAT PERSON IS IN THE MIDDLE OF BEING SEARCHED! One of the most illogical and awkward scenes I have had the displeasure to witness in some time
shareThe scene was so brainless it was literally painful to watch it. (even more than the rest of the film, to be honest)
shareThey were passing it around because the person who passed inspection would have to go through the metal detector and he couldn't do it with the card. So they passed it to the next person and so on, till the last guy; meanwhile the others cross the metal detector safely and are ready to catch it from the last guy. But, the guards almost caught them and searched them again so they had to go through the whole thing again.
share> They were passing it around because the person who passed inspection would have to go through the metal detector and he couldn't do it with the card.
No. You weren't watching closely. When the head scientist noticed that Franco had been out of his sight for a few moments, he ordered that all four of them be searched. Through quick slight of hand, Franco kept the card from being found. For unknown reasons, once he had been cleared, he flipped the card to the next person while they were being searched. And, once they were cleared, they flipped it to the next person and so on. Each of them seemed to have been searched twice, allowing the scene to drag on needlessly for about ten minutes.
Then, they were all led back to the security room where they suddenly discovered that they could not get the card out through the metal detector. Woody then had to flip the card one last time to someone who had already gone through.
It was a poorly designed scene.
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Absolutely dreadful scene. And we've not even gone into the nonsensical details yet. For example, when Lizzie Caplan's character walks over the card and it sticks to her shoe, or when Jesse Eisenberg somehow makes a card go across his whole body and down his trousers without moving an inch.
It's not magic. It's not sleight of hand. It's *beep*
> Absolutely dreadful scene.
And completely unnecessary. The guards were only doing a simple pat-down search. Franco could simply have put the card in any pocket and it wouldn't have been found. If he put it anyplace sneaky, like in a hat or in his sock, there was a zero chance of it ever being found.
And, for that matter, it was just a playing card. If any guard had actually found it in someone's pocket, it would not seem all that suspicious.
And, from a real-world scenario, metal detectors usually have dead zones near the top, bottom and edges, otherwise the metal from the floor and the structure would set it off -- that's one reason why they make you take off your shoes at the airport. If the card was slipped into someone shoe and they timed their step right, they could walk right through.
There are about a hundred reasons why that whole card-tossing scene was useless and frustratingly phony.
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One part I can't figure out - when Lizzy Caplan shrugged her bra off from under her dress - why did all the guys look surprised? They've never seen a woman do the bra trick before?
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When the head scientist noticed that Franco had been out of his sight for a few moments, he ordered that all four of them be searched.
This is what was egregious about the ending. Like if that guy was part of the eye, why did he put them through the whole tribulation?
shareThey do mention at the end that the team had to learn to work as a single unit, so I assume he did it to help their training. He was the only person of any authority in the room, so I'm sure he could have figured out how to "let" them escape if they were caught.
shareA lil over the top, but worth it.
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I agree. It was a clever concept, but it was overlong. It was like they were all getting searched at the same time, but also at different times. All they had to do was direct it to the person who was already cleared, instead it was thrown to someone who was at the beginning of their search, or Jesse Eisenburg could have simply flipped it into a place, like his sleeve again , after they had patted down that area. The CGI also made it way too cartoony and less suspenseful.
The real trick was the final metal detector, was wondering how they would pull that off; I know that they incredibly timed the throw with the wallet, but I guess none of the guards noticed a card wizzing through in plain site.
Every guard was focusing on Jesse's character cause he knocked the 'Gong'.
Well..supposedly
it would proably be very hard to do it
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I think this scene probably got botched in rewrites or editing. My guess is that it was originally written so that they learned of the detector (which they weren't expecting) on the way in, and the tossing of the card was just each person trying to pass the buck so they wouldn't be the one caught sneaking it out. In other words, all that passing was supposed to be the team improvising, but it comes off as if they just planned to throw this card around for no apparent reason, the scene with the wallet is the only part they look like they have to think on their feet. The scene would have worked if the card tossing seemed like panicked ad libbing rather than a deliberate part of the plan.
They mention at the end that the Eye wanted the Horsemen to learn to work as a single unit. I think what this scene was trying to accomplish was to show that process happening. Judging from the interview below, it sounds like the director got so caught up in the technical and cinematic aspects of the scene that he never realized how badly it failed from a story point of view.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-director-of-now-you-see-me-2-describes-the-magic-be-1781612616