Factual error: During the first battle with an Anaconda, the 55-gallon fuel drums lashed to the deck of the riverboat are swept over the side, where they sink to the bottom of the river. This plot device drives the rest of the movie, since the boat must make a dangerous detour through "Anaconda country." There is just one small problem with this: Fuel drums full of diesel fuel or gasoline float on water. The fuel in them makes them buoyant. It would have been a simple matter for someone to get a rope or a boathook and retrieve the fuel drums before they floated away.
Anaconda (1997)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Luis Llosa
Starring: Eric Stoltz, Ice Cube, Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight
Jon Voight captures and uses Lopez and Ice Cube as bait for the snake. However snake evades trap and swallows Jon Voight whole. Lopez and Ice Cube escape after blowing up factory by the river, with snake inside. Snake then arises from the river still alive but Ice Cube stabs an axe in its head and it dies. Lopez and Ice Cube go home happily ever after.
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More mistakes in Anaconda
Paul Serone: They strike, wrap around you. Hold you tighter than your true love. And you get the privilege, of hearing your bones break before the power of embrace causes your veins to explode.
Question: Okay, so I can't figure out why Paul and Matteo had the whole elaborate ruse set up. Why not just come out by themselves? Why did they set up a stranded boat and take the crew hostage with all of the events in the movie?
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Answer: They didn't set it up. They were chasing after the anaconda anyway and were stranded. They still wanted to go after the anaconda after they were picked up, so they lied to the crew. They knew the crew wouldn't go after the anaconda on their own.