Question: What song is playing when Frank accidentally activates the player piano?
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Question: Why doesn't the guy in the truck just turn the turrets to face the sky or something when the Mariner is pulling the gun boat into the deacon's boat or hell even turn the engine off meaning the gun has no power! He was reaching through the cab trying to get the guys attention so it's not like absolutely no-one on the gun boat was unaware of what was going on.
Answer: The guy behind the wheel had no control over the gun's movement. It was done by the gunner, as seen in the beginning where he tested the controls. We don't know that he would have been able to shut off the power to the guns either.
Question: When the Lakota go to save Dunbar, Bauer gets away, one of the Lakota kills him. Should've the hatchet been in his back and not the front? (02:49:11)
Answer: He wasn't killed by the ones chasing him. He was killed by Smiles a Lot.
Question: What exactly is the crowd chanting at the fighting match? It's sounds like "Go Rumba" or something but I can't make it out.
Answer: They are saying "Kapow".
Question: How did they remove the dead worker's body from the juggernaut's cube when they finally trapped him?
Answer: Perhaps they used one of the anti-ghost flares to subdue him while they removed it.
Question: I still don't understand the situation with Lori's mum. So Freddy killed her, and her dad covered it up with the story of her dying in a car accident. So, I don't understand the scene where he is walking towards her in a threatening manner and Will is seeing it. What did Lori's dad exactly do at the moment Freddy killed his wife?
Answer: As the mum was being killed, Will saw her dad standing over her with a knife. He thought her dad was trying to kill her mum when he was actually attempting to fight Freddy. To continue with the coverup and attempt to bury Freddy, her dad had Will committed.
Question: What year do you think it is when Andrew returns to the Martin family home and meets Portia, as well as the older Little Miss?
Answer: According to various wikis, the year is 2068.
Question: Why are there two completely different endings to American Gangster?
Answer: Presumably you're referring to the additional 18 minutes added to the DVD ending. This is not unusual. Theatrical releases usually maintain a certain runtime to allow the movie to be shown so many times per day, maximizing number of tickets sold. Most movies are around 90-120 minutes, so a film's scenes are often trimmed or cut entirely, often against the director's preference. The DVD "extended cut" allows the director to re-add deleted footage and show a more complete and cohesive story.
Question: With the fire in the house, they opened up the walls and the ceiling. Why would they do that? Wouldn't that give the fire more oxygen?
Question: Near the start, RDN is narrating the casino and says of the count room, "Even I couldn't get in there." Why wouldn't the guy who is in charge of the casino be able to access the count room? Surely he would have unlimited access to everywhere, especially since he was put there by mob bosses and trusted 100%? Who would tell him no in any case?
Answer: It's doubtful that anyone in the Mafia sphere is ever trusted 100%, regardless how capable they are. There would be legitimate concerns that someone might start skimming off the top or collude with others to cheat the bosses. Also, by restricting access and dividing responsibilities, it lessens the suspects if any irregularities occur. The counters likely directly worked for and reported to the mob bosses, not Rothstein, who handled the casino's daily operations, not the the money.
Question: When the not-so-dead Russian gets away from his pursuers, what happened to him? It seems to be implied that he doubled back and drove away in their car, but it was never really explained. Incidentally, there is no way that scene was filmed in the real Jersey Pine Barrens.
Answer: The show creators intentionally left it ambiguous as to what happened to Valery.
Question: Who was the man in the office that was on the phone when Grey barged in, and why did she bring up lingerie?
Answer: He's the husband of the woman Grey was representing in her introductory scene. She brought up lingerie because she had incriminating photos of him unclothed whilst having an affair.
Question: Why is Gerry in high school at 11?
Answer: Could be he was smart and was advanced several grades. Could be a combined middle school/high school that's just called a high school.
Answer: It's a 1975 Dodge Ramcharger.
Question: Why did the cable jam when Jim was being pulled into the rescue helicopter?
Answer: Simple malfunction to get the movie going. Also, the cable could have been old and in dire need of replacement.
Moreover, after jamming and before breaking loose, this cable started smoking.
Question: Unless Dylan or a stewardess closed the plane's door, wouldn't passengers get sucked out as she and the would-be bomber parachuted out of it?
Answer: A plane's altitude is a factor. If flying low enough so that the cabin's internal air pressure is equal to the external air pressure, there would not be a huge suction; the danger would be passengers falling out the open door. At a higher altitude, the door being blown open or a hole in the fuselage would suck people out until the pressure equalized within a few minutes. (Those left inside would suffocate without oxygen masks.) It's impossible to open the door if the inner and outer air pressures are unequal. Think of skydivers jumping from planes. The altitude must be under 10,000 feet for divers not to pass out from low oxygen during the descent and be below the sub-freezing air temperatures. The whole scene is ridiculous; the bomb's shockwave would likely kill or seriously injure all three. Jumping from the plane that way could have sucked them into the jet's engine or hit the wing or tail resulting in death.
Answer: Yes, you're correct, they would. But once the door was opened, there was no reclosing it. The way I look at it is that this was just a pre-credit action set piece which had zero to do with the rest of the movie. Similar to the Bond movies, only excruciatingly dumb.
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Answer: The piece was arranged for the movie by composer Ira Newborn, who also did the theme song.
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