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More than anything I'd say that scene showed the parallels on both sides.
Hannah was disciplined enough cut his losses and not take them on a lesser charge, and Neil was disciplined enough to cut his losses and leave the place with nothing once he heard the noise from the truck.
"he looked scruffy and dirty"
I thought the opposite - that for a drifter with only one change of clothes, he looked a bit too clean cut.
Although he had a beard before it was fashionable, it was neatly trimmed, as was his hair, and his clothes were very smart and clean - he even had his christmas eve outfit it that little travel bag
I think it was implied that he'd end up becoming a cop - his "instincts" with the light-guy, his taste for action and his general kinship with and approval from Uncle Ralph
Still wouldn't be enough to support her lifestyle though, like you say
The most unrealistic part of the movie for me.
As other posters have said, the toy store owners' behaviour was completely unreasonable. It's hard to believe someone who owns a toy store and spends all day dealing with kids and parents would be such an a""hole.
Morgan's reaction, and in turn Jennifer's reaction to that were even more unbelievable. Like an earlier poster said, it would have played better if he'd just been shamed in to handing the bike over when the police came. Or better still if he'd come and given her the bike when she called him.
I get that we needed to see Morgan being a problem solver and coming to the rescue - surely pointing to the phone number while Jen was panicking would have been enough.
I think they tried to make it a funny moment but it didn't work, it just seemed like something out of a cartoon.
it's entirely possible the sister thing was just the final straw.
The whole reason he was in that mess in New York was because of Manny introducing him to the "mob banker" who turned out to be an undercover.
Then, while Tony was in New York, and Manny was supposed to be running things in his forced absence, Manny goes AWOL.
If you are gonna marry the overprotective boss' sister in secret, maybe pick a better time to do it? just a thought.
Also it's a good job Tony never found out about Manny's negligence at the chainsaw scene or he may have got got a lot sooner.
The sister story is from the 30s version - the girl in that even looks a bit like Gina in this - but it worked a lot better in that one. Here it's just kinda creepy.
Another huge problem for me was the plan to set it up to look like Swann had come through the garden, even though he'd be arriving and leaving through the main door. The inspector dismissed this in no time due to the evidence. Even if the murder had gone through as planned, it would have been obvious from the lack of mud walked in to the flat, the lack of footprints in the garden etc that the killer must have come through the front door (unless the plan was that he'd replace the key and then exit through the garden - it's been a few years since i've watched it - even so, there would have been no mud walked in and the only footprints would be leading away).
If anything, Wendice's improvised scheme to frame his wife for "murdering a blackmailer" was more solid than the plan he'd been supposedly hatching for 2 years.
As for your observation about pound notes, don't forget that with inflation, £1 then must be worth at least £20 now, so he'd just give him say £25k or 30k in used 20 pound notes.
Pre-Sopranos, he was great in The Basketball Diaries too - I thought I recognised the voice but I didn't realise it was him until I saw his name in the end credits!
Don't remember him in The Lovely Bones but I've only seen it once and only remember Mark Wahlberg in that
it's like a fortress around here
He's clean....I've frisked a thousand punks
thank you. I forgot to mention he also stopped watching Dr Who
the difference is that with the mohawk, he looked like a freak by choice rather than by misfortune. More importantly, the mohawk certainly draws attention away from the lip. And more importantly than that, it wasn't just the mohawk - he changed his dress sense, got tattoos, and above all changed his attitude to be more of an aggressive "alpha" type. If he'd just got the mohawk but carried on wearing 1970s hand-me-down sweaters and being timid, chances are he would still be called a freak, maybe even more so.
In short, he flipped the script.
Hawk, fall in.
the people exiting the plane just thought that he was dead tired
"1) A veteran judge was naive or stupid enough to make a highly risky and incriminating phone call to his son, discussing the IPO scheme"
and made the risky phone call to from his office to J.T. Marlin's landline.
Even if the line wasn't being tapped, what judge would want that on their phone records? So it makes more sense that Seth's dad KNEW the call would be listened too.
Or better still, what Whaledogs said, his dad put the FBI on to him as soon as he found out they were a chop shop (can't remember the timeline but I don't think Seth sees his dad between the FBI being on to him and the "you lied again you SOB" scene)
The idea that they'd target Seth, the newbie, on the basis that "his loyalties dont run too deep" made no sense at all. Jamie Kennedy was clearly an very old friend of his, and being a newbie, Seth really wouldn't be able to give them that much.
Only problem really is why would Seth's dad confront him about working there - he couldn't possibly have known that Seth would come to his office and ask him to go in on a scam with him? (the excuse for the call)
I thought she was being perfectly reasonable and calm in the circumstances - he'd handed over $800 of their joint money to a cold caller, and the first she knew about it was when the stock confirmation or whatever it was came in the mail.
She had every right to ask those questions. In fact, they're the questions every reasonable person would ask. Harry was the one who was getting loud and agitated in front of the kids.
the irony is that Harry Renard's actions were pretty much exactly what Greg was describing - the stock goes down, he's on the phone wanting to know what's going on etc
what I don't understand is why did Seth go to such lengths to hard-sell him on the 2nd call when Harry was Greg's client and, as he said himself in Tom Everett-Scott's office, he wouldn't have made any commission for it?
Maybe it was just habit being on the phone. Surely when the "3 dollar rip" announcement was made, though, it was in Seth's interest to hang up and quickly call as many of his own clients as he could.
I wondered this when I re-watched - it's not clear, because if memory serves the next scene is when Seth answers the phone at home to Vin Diesel who says "you passed the series 7. We're celebrating" (presumably it's a Saturday when this happens).
Do you get the series 7 results immediately after taking the test? Even if you don't, it's unlikely he'd have been given the news so casually. And his lack of reaction suggest he already knew he'd passed. So he may have passed earlier in the week and called Harry afterwards, when he was starting to close his 40 accounts for Greg, and Vin Diesel was just ringing to make celebration plans. It could have been made clearer though - there were enough narration voiceovers from Seth, one more saying "i passed the series 7" before the call to Harry would have been helpful.
thanks for the replies everyone. While i don't have an answer for Michael's intentions when negotiating, isn't it a brilliant parallel to when Vito negotiates with Don Fanucci before killing him anyway?!
I asked that question a while ago, and my friend suggested that, with having a police captain as his body guard, maybe Solozzo felt untouchable and therefore didn't need any further reinforcements.
Not seeing Michael as a threat prior to the hospital incident made sense. After it, not so much. He'd successfully pretended to be a button man himself, and done a convincing enough job to scare off the hitters, before giving a lot of lip to McClusky. And after breaking his jaw, he might also want a little personal revenge. Even if he didn't, it was naive to think of him as just a civilian after all that.
So many threads about this film in which each answer raises more questions. It's great.
while those were Vito's reasons, we then had a police captain act as a round-the-clock bodyguard for Solozzo the drugs baron! So maybe Vito's judgement of what the police will and wont accept was off, or maybe McClusky was a different type to the law enforcement guys Vito knew. After all, we're talking about a crooked cop. A dishonest cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him.