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Question: Would Bruce, standing in front of the Gamma Sphere, have really saved Harper's life?

Answer: It's fictional sci-fi movie technology, so it's honestly up to the writers. In the case of the movie as depicted, it seems to have worked. (While there is a real Gammasphere that was used as the very loose basis for the one seen in the movie, its function is entirely different, so it can't really be used as a valid comparison.)

TedStixon

Answer: The timeline of the movie is important to consider. The 1966 film began production while season 1 of the TV series was being aired. Eartha Kitt didn't play Catwoman until season 3. According to the TV show "Biography", Newmar was suffering from a back injury and unable to reprise her role for the movie. But she was able to recover by the time they started shooting the 2nd season. So, for the movie they hired Meriweather.

Bishop73

Answer: Of the three actresses that portrayed Catwoman, Julie Newmar was the first in the TV series and Eartha Kitt assumed the role after Newmar became unavailable. Lee Meriwether played the character in the movie. All were "guest stars," not regular cast members, so their availability would constantly change as they did other TV shows, movies, plays, etc. Show creator William Dozier originally wanted to first film and release a feature-length Batman movie, using it like a pilot, to introduce the Batman character, then launch the TV show based on it. However, the studio, 20th Century Fox, wanted the TV series first, so the movie was delayed until after the successful first season. During the movie's filming timeframe, Newmar was unavailable (various reasons have been reported about why she did not reprise the role) and Meriwether was cast.

raywest

Answer: He was an American Neo-Nazi.

raywest

But his surname sounds German. It might suggest that he is an American Neo-Nazi of German descent.

Yes, of German origin. "American" is not a race or ethnicity, is made up of many cultures, and is only a nationality. Klaber is an American citizen likely with German ancestry. American Neo-Nazis are of many different racial backgrounds. They adopt Nazi ideologies.

raywest

German is also a nationality, not a race. To be clear.

lionhead

German is a nationality, referring to citizens of the country of Germany, and also an ethnicity, traditionally characterized by certain genetic traits, certain facial features, light-coloured eyes, blond hair, etc. "American" is only a designation of citizenship, not any particular racial or ethnic makeup.

raywest

That's not true. People with those genetic traits (like me) are not "German" or "Germanic." Maybe Aryan or Caucasian. Those are ethnicities. Not German. Germans are only distinguished by their use of the Germanic language, not their appearance. Also, certain Germanic tribes were very far from blond and light-colored eyes.

lionhead

Answer: According to Favreau in an interview, he cited exhaustion after helming the first two Iron Man films as director/executive producer and wanted to step back. He also had other planned projects to work on.

raywest

Question: What exactly was wrong with Hedy? What made her so messed up?

Answer: Hedy's twin sister drowned when she was a child. She's trying to reform that bond with Allie.

Brian Katcher

Question: What was BioSyn planning on doing with the dinosaur DNA if Nedry had been successful in getting it to them?

Answer: Cloning their own dinosaurs and opening a rival park.

Brian Katcher

Answer: Agree with the other answer, but it was revealed later that the dinosaurs were also valuable commodities to sell to private parties for personal zoos, big-game trophy hunting, as bio-weapons, cruel sport competitions similar to rooster fighting, etc. In Jurassic World Dominion, small ones were being cooked and served as a delicacy.

raywest

Answer: Gillian says, "While we're building him up, they're knocking him down." The Professor is talking about building Duke's strength up, and Gilligan is basically saying Ginger and Mary Ann are wearing Duke out by running around with him.

Bishop73

Question: Why did Stony and Keith never meet up in Mexico at the end? Stony just lost 3 dear friends on top of the 3 family members. Wouldn't she want to be with the last person in the world that knows she exists?

Answer: If someone disappears after committing a serious crime, they must cut past ties to avoid being traced. That includes ending any past romantic relationships that could lead police to their whereabouts. Stony would also not want to ensnare Keith into a life of being on the run, and possibly get him arrested. Their relationship was short-term and likely would not have survived such a stressful and tumultuous scenario. It seems unlikely Keith would give up his stable personal life for such a situation.

raywest

Question: I don't know if this is a mistake so I'll ask here: why is there a soldier at the Berlin Rally who has the fraction 2/13 on the collar of his jacket instead of the SS runes? (01:10:01)

Big Game

Chosen answer: He is not SS but SA. Brown shirts are SA (SturmAbteilung) and SS wore black (and rarely gray). The 2/13 is the unit type and number respectively.

lionhead

Question: Petunia tells Harry that when Lily, who was underage at the time, would come home from Hogwarts, she would use magic in front of family. Since underage witches and wizards aren't allowed to use magic outside of Hogwarts because it would lead to expulsion, then why wasn't Lily expelled? The Trace was even used to make sure no student ever did.

Answer: J.K. Rowling has been asked this. Her vague explanation was that it was a case of Lily "breaking the rules." She never elaborated on whether Lily was punished, though she obviously was not expelled and probably only disciplined. It would be unlikely that a student would be dismissed for minor infractions. Personally, I'd say it was just one of many minor plot holes throughout the entire HP series that Rowling later has had to clean up with a rather weak explanation.

raywest

Answer: It says: "every holiday". Doesn't that mean since she started school? Which would make her underage.

Answer: The line from the book is: "and came home every holiday with her pockets full of frogspawn, turning teacups into rats." Nothing is said about what year she does this so it's possible that the transfiguration part took place after she came of age.

Ssiscool

Question: How did the gate that the boys went through in the gyrosphere get broken? It seems to be broken from inside the paddock that the herbivores are in, as you can see claw marks all over it. I doubt it was the Indominus, as all the herbivores seem pretty chill. Plus, I imagine it could only be reached to damage it from the herbivores' side due to it being electrified.

Answer: The implication is the Indominus broke the gate. It may have been far enough away from the big herbivores and stayed close to the fence line that the animals were unaware or unperturbed as long as it kept its distance. The area that the large dinosaurs roam in would be hundreds of acres and they may not have seen the predator yet. The Indominus had shown that the tactical team's electrical weapons had little effect on it, so the electrical fence may have been a minor obstacle.

raywest

Question: There's a deleted scene that's on the DVD where Officer Burroughs goes to the break room after his first phone call with Jill and he overhears two other officers talking about the murders at the beginning of the film. Even though it's unlikely he could have known then, why didn't he suspect right away that Jill's situation sounded similar to those murders, and that Jill was in serious danger?

Answer: Because it's unlikely that he knew then.

ChristmasJonesfan

Question: When the Stranger uses Tiffany's phone to call Jill at the house, Tiffany's full name comes up on the caller ID. Did Tiffany know the family? Is that why she knows where the house is?

Answer: I believe that Jill's other friend, Scarlet, told Tiffany where the house was.

ChristmasJonesfan

Question: Why didn't Batman just contact Gordon and tell him what was really going on in Arkham City? They could use that against Professor Strange and stop Protocol 10 before it even began.

Answer: Because Batman didn't know until it was too late, and there was interference as he spoke to Alfred, if you remember hearing that. So contacting Gordon would've been even harder.

Rob245

Question: Considering that there are many different theories about how time travel works, such as the grandfather paradox, temporal paradox, etc., why did Adam assume that the butterfly effect was the primary rule of time traveling?

Answer: It's just the rule they used for the movie; not a lot of thought was put into the time-traveling rules with the obvious inconsistencies the movie has throughout regarding it, especially in the ending.

lionhead

Question: When Seymore is having the final confrontation with the plant, the plant sings, "You can keep the Thing. You can keep the It. You can keep the Creature, they don't mean shit!" I get that "the Thing" is a reference to the monster from "The Thing From Another World" and "the Creature" is a reference to Gillman from "The Creature From The Black Lagoon", but what is "the It" a reference to?

Answer: Most likely it is referring to It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) or possibly It Came from Outer Space (1953).

Answer: I'm assuming that "it" is simply a vague reference to non-human creatures. (It most likely wouldn't be a reference to "It" by Stephen King, as "It" came out after the song was written.)

TedStixon

Answer: He was speaking in general. It being used as a subject, direct object, or indirect object of a verb, or object of a preposition, usually in reference to a lifeless thing.

Answer: Seems like "It" is the titular creature from Stephen King's novel "It." It was a shapeshifter, but mainly took the form of Pennywise the Clown. The novel was released 3 months prior to this film's release.

Bishop73

Question: How did the kids in the flashback know it was Lonnie who stole their brother's candy?

Answer: The way that I look at it is: they didn't know. Not for certain anyway. They just guessed and as it turns out, they were right. Also, they were bullies. And there were three of them and one of Lonnie.

ChristmasJonesfan

Question: At the very end of the movie, why did Jody and her mother hide the reason for all the Leonard killings from the police or the FBI?

Trainman

Answer: The police knew. Deputy Mina, who was sitting across from Jody and her mom in the interrogation room, smiled knowingly. They just didn't tell the feds to keep Jody's dad's name out of it. He was, after all, Leonard's biological father and the Markens didn't want the FBI to know. Or at least that's my take on it.

ChristmasJonesfan

Question: Kathryn wants Sebastian's car if she wins their bet. Considering the upper-class lifestyle of their family, why has she not gotten a car already if she wants one? Sebastian was able to get one, presumably by asking his father and/or Kathryn's mother. Do you think Kathryn never really cared about getting his car, and if so, why make the bet?

Azalea

Answer: Because the car was important to Sebastian, and she wanted to show him who was boss by taking it off him.

Question: When Anderton, after his eye surgery, has his dream about the day he lost his son, look carefully at the people shown at poolside after Anderton discovers that his son is gone. For about a second, the camera follows a suspicious-looking man wearing a fairly wide-brimmed hat, and a towel around his shoulders. While we see this man, the video suddenly becomes "choppy," as though something significant were happening. The camera also zooms in toward his face. This all happens in about one second. Are we to assume that this is the man responsible for kidnapping Anderton's son?

Matty Blast

Answer: In my opinion, no. I do see what you are referring to, but this has been shot and edited in a manner to give the entire sequence a dreamlike effect. There is nothing in this scene (or in the entire movie, really) that gives any clues to Sean's fate, which is left intentionally ambiguous.

jshy7979

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