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Marquis = Old Django?
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Start with 100 doors. 99 have a goat. 1 has a car.
Player A gets to pick 1 door.
Player B gets the other 99 doors.
Q.1 Who has the better odds of winning the car at this point? (B 99%; A 1%)
Now, open 98 of B's 99 doors showing the goats.
Q.2 Who still has the better odds of winning the car? (B 99%; A 1%)
Q.3 Finally, if A is given the choice to switch with B, should A do it?
(Yes, based upon the above statistics.)
It doesn't matter if the game starts with 3 doors or 3 million doors. The answer to Q.3 should be yes if A wants to change the odds to his favour.
I have re-watched the first scene several times and had a hard time deciding which interpretation is correct.
Is a crybaby considered weak and should be eliminated leaving calm and confident babies to be super soldiers? Todd and all the soldiers were calm and devoid of emotion. The expression on the nurse seems sad as if the crybaby will be put to death. The remaining babies were still under the watchful eye of the military. This was my original interpretation.
On the other hand, is a crying baby a sign that the baby is hungrier, wants more and will grow up to be more aggressive? The focus was on the crying baby from the beginning of the film. The military only selected a few (cry)babies and labeled them 1A. They left the vast majority of the babies behind, all of whom were passive. The expression of the nurse would then be interpreted as her sadness that this baby was going to end up in a military experiment. Was Todd one of the select few or one of the many that were left behind in the nursery?
I looked up military classifications on Wikipedia. "1A" means "available for unrestricted military service". I now lean towards the latter interpretation.
I think the scene would have worked better if the majority of babies were crying and they focused on and selected the non-crying baby to be the super soldier. I think the director probably went with the original scene because it would have been cruel to force the majority of the babies to cry for the scene.
TC is saving the F-35 for TP3.
"It's the pilot, not the plane."
Star Wars Episode 4
Really? How many white horses have won the Triple Crown?
I just watched this movie on Netflix. When I watched the sneeze scene, I thought that it was another highlight of Keanu Reeve's acting abilities.
Doc Brown explains it in "Back to the Future 2"
Leading up to her death, she asked Wick if he feared eternal damnation to which answered yes. She said that she thought that she would avoid damnation. She is Italian. She is probably Roman Catholic. Suicide is a sin and she would have ended up in hell.
John has already commited so many sins and is going to hell, anyways. By shooting and killing her as she was fading, he spared her from damnation, at least for this particular sin.
I think the wife was blameless. Her breakdown was caused directly by his lies and ambitions.
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