Question: Elisabeth is a rich and famous TV celebrity and former Oscar-winning actress. How come she has to live in an apartment with a such working-class-looking lowlife creep like Oliver? Why does she even have neighbours? She must be a millionaire at a minimum.
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Answer: M.C. Hammer amassed a multi-million dollar fortune, but within ten years he lost it all. She believed in her own hype. She believed she was on top forever. By the end of the 1980s, the whole fitness craze went the way of the dinosaur.
Answer: In addition to the other answers, it should also be reaffirmed that the movie isn't meant to be 100% realistic. It's purposely written to be very hyperbolic, cartoonish and almost like a "dark fairy tale." And one of the themes is the predatory way women in the entertainment industry (and the world at large) are treated. Even someone as famous as she being forced to stay in an apartment with a creepy, leering neighbour contributes to that theme… she can't escape predation, even at home. (I think it should also be noted that her apartment is fairly large and luxurious, especially for an expensive city like LA. The rent in a place like that is probably about 5X what I'd pay to rent an entire house in my city. So it's not like she has no money.)
Question: We're Barnaby, Stannie Dum, and Ollie Dee based on actual nursery rhymes, or were they made up for the movie?
Answer: Stan and Ollie were based on Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee. I believe the character of Barnaby was created for the movie.
Question: When Chucky and Andy are in the police station after Chucky kills his ex-partner Eddie, Andy tries to get Chucky to talk to the police. Then, Andy runs over to his mum and says, "He told me never to tell about him or he'd kill me!" When did Chucky say this?
Answer: In those private moments, when they were alone. At night, when Andy was talking to his "imaginary" friend.
Question: Early in the movie, Jack Warden says he has tickets for the Yankees-Twins game. The Minnesota Twins didn't come into the league until the early '60s. Why the deliberate error?
Answer: He doesn't say Yankees-Twins; he says Yankee-Cleveland.
Question: What exactly does Richard die from? In a matter of seconds, he goes from running full-speed and screaming for help, only to suddenly fall over dead once he reaches Elliot. If it was from internal injuries, wouldn't it take longer for him to succumb to them, especially with how mobile he was shown to be?
Answer: Seconds after he drops dead, an ape comes from where he'd been running from and throws a human brain at the living humans. This is Richard's brain, torn from his head. In the context of the film and employing a (fair) bit of suspension of disbelief, he must have had enough brain stem (where reflexes are governed) left to run and scream a bit before dropping dead. In reality, of course, this is an extremely unlikely if not impossible scenario, invented by the screenwriter for the purposes of a gruesome death. Perhaps inspired by stories like Mike the Headless Chicken, an animal which survived for months after having most of its head/brain chopped off.
Question: What does the journalist say to the Native Americans to make them stand down? To them, it appeared half a dozen white men had desecrated graves, yet they backed off quickly after he said something to them. What was it?
Answer: I'm not 100% sure, but I think it was, "We come in peace! We are hunting the men that did this!"
Question: When Special Agent Frawley hurried around a parked car to escape from Coughlin shooting at him, was Coughlin actually trying to kill him or just get him flustered and disoriented so he can make his escape? It looked like he had a clear line of sight at him.
Answer: From what we have learned about Coughlin throughout the movie, I think it's a very safe assumption to say that he was indeed trying to kill Agent Frawley. He simply missed.
Question: What happened to Chozen's friends, Toshio and Taro? After being defeated by Mr. Miyagi (in the scene where Chozen hits Mr. Miyagi with the spear) they no longer appear in the movie. Is this possible that they perished during the typhoon? If they didn't, then what happened to them?
Answer: There's no definitive answer ever given, so any answer would be speculation. Since the fight in the garden is the last we see of them, we can surmise that they literally got some sense knocked into them by Miyagi. Miyagi took down the three of them, one of them armed. It's likely they backed off at that point, as they didn't have any personal problems with Miyagi or Daniel.
Question: Was Arthur always supposed to die? Or was he originally supposed to survive?
Answer: Arthur dies in both endings; it's a question of how.
If his honour is high, he will die from tuberculosis. If his honour is low, he will be killed by Micah.
Question: What made the pilot burp over and over for minutes before having the fatal heart attack? Also, does that really happen in real life to people before heart attacks?
Question: Throughout the movie, we hear Wadsworth saying that the police are coming/have been called. Then, in one of the endings (I think it's the last one), Wadsworth says, "Why should the police come? Nobody's called them." And Mrs. Peacock says, "Oh my God, of course!" What does this mean?
Answer: She realised that no-one had called the police and that they wouldn't show up to an unreported crime.
Answer: It means since he was the mastermind, she realised that he had been lying about calling the police.
Question: The events of this movie take place roughly 19-20 years after Revenge of the Sith, so why did Obi-Wan Kenobi age so much?
Answer: Obi-Wan was about 25 years old in the Phantom Menace. Ten years passed in Attack of the Clones, which would make him about 35 years old. About five years passed in Revenge of the Sith, which would make Obi-Wan about 40 years old. Twenty years passed at the beginning of A New Hope, which would make him about 60 years of age.
Answer: Ewan McGregor was 34 in Revenge of the Sith, but could pass for slightly older. Adding 20 years makes him 54, but if he was playing slightly older he could easily have been mid-late 30s in Episode III, so mid-late 50s by the time of Star Wars. Alec Guinness was 63 in Star Wars, so could reasonably be a few years younger, character-wise. Coupled with living a hard life on a desert planet, and his age/appearance line up pretty well.
Question: As popular as Dusty was, wouldn't you think one of the Tuckers would have heard of him, since they go to the country bar, and recognized him.
Answer: Seeing someone in person in a common environment is very different from seeing them in a venue-type setting where you're not looking for them.
Question: How did they catch Nils Nelbrook in the hospital? They say he was in a car accident and Simon Pegg was driving the other car, but what happened?
Answer: My understanding is Benji deliberately caused a collision with their cars so they can knock him out and make him think that he woke up in the hospital.
Question: Who were the 7 Jenkins brothers? And how did Rattle Snake Jake kill them?
Answer: He didn't.
Question: On Endor, when Luke invites Vader to join him, what if Vader had agreed? How could they quickly convince the Rebels that Vader was against the Empire now? Also, wouldn't they need to go to the Death Star anyway and deal with the Emperor?
Answer: One possibility is that Darth Vader and Luke could kill the Emperor together, leave the Death Star, and Vader could agree to be a Rebel prisoner until after the battle. He almost might have information that the Rebels could use. Then Han and Leia could have a longer discussion with Luke about the situation.
Answer: They probably wouldn't trust Vader since he has killed many Rebels, Jedi and civilians. While it's possible they are willing to trust Luke that Vader has in fact turned against the Empire, it's highly unlikely due to his past.
Question: How did Ethan Hunt know he was going to switch places with Hugh at the end of the film requiring him to take two masks with him to swap different faces?
Answer: The only thing I can think is because they're in Sean Ambrose's hideout, and he's an ex-IMF operative, then he possibly had the gear required in there. Ethan found it before the encounter with Hugh, and it's simply not shown. Other than that, it's an error.
Question: Would Alex be considered a sociopath outside of the changed ending? It seems like she doesn't engage in such atrocities later in the film on a routine basis, and she doesn't appear to lie or manipulate on a consistent basis in the context of self-serving behaviour.
Answer: How do you know this is the first man she stalked? There could have been others.
Question: In this film, German soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht incorrectly wear uniforms of the Afrika Korps, which was actually created in 1941. What would be the correct real-life uniform these characters should have been wearing in the desert by 1936?
Chosen answer: In real life, the Wehrmacht had no presence in Northern Africa in 1936. So whoever they were, they shouldn't have been there. Having said that, since there were no olive or khaki coloured desert uniforms yet (1940), the Wehrmacht soldiers should wear regular Heer field uniforms, which are grey-green ("field grey") and had the same style and looks from 1934 to 1945.
They were there on a personal mission for Hitler. It had nothing to do with the war. It was strictly an archaeological dig. The uniforms were relevant.
The British are not going to let armed and uniformed Wehrmacht soldiers and SS, trucks and warplanes walk around Egypt. Certainly not digging for treasure. There may not be war yet, but they were not exactly on good terms either.
Answer: There's a false belief that an Oscar winner automatically becomes a megastar, raking in millions and getting many movie offers. That's true for some, particularly established actors, but many find that their careers did not significantly improve and even diminished. Unfortunately, Oscar awards can be less about acting ability and more about Hollywood political wrangling, a popularity choice, a PC vote, personal bias, or a sympathy win. Some believe in an "Oscar Curse," where winning actually hurts an actor's career.
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