Question: The pen where we see them feeding the cow to the raptors—do all three of them live in there all the time, or is it just when they're being fed? It seems like an extremely small pen for three raptors to live in. Plus, how would visitors see the raptors when they're boxed in that way?
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Answer: It was all three. The game warden said the female took charge of the pride, killed all the others, leaving only two left.
Question: If a part of Voldemort's soul was inside the diary, then how could he possibly know about the deaths of James and Lily and the circumstances of his defeat?
Question: People look around the abandoned hotel. TONI: Where is Danny? VIC: We need keys to some of these places. TONI: Check the front desk. VIC: Only if Wednesday Addams is on a break. What does the last Vic's line mean? Who is Wednesday Addams? What does on a break mean? (00:57:15)
Chosen answer: Wednesday Addams was a character on a popular TV show called "The Addams Family" about a creepy family, and Wednesday, the daughter in particular, is a sociopath and psychopath who enjoys maiming and injuring people. Vic's last line is a joke about Wednesday being on a break and therefore it's safer than if she was there and possibly lying in wait to attack them. I hope that makes sense as that was more difficult to explain than I thought it would be.
Question: Is there any symbolism or meaning to Otho's reading of the incantation from "The Handbook of The Recently Deceased" during the seance/exorcism scene? Even as a child, I found it seemed like it had more in-depth meaning of some kind.
Answer: There's no symbolism or meaning. It was just a way of getting Adam and Barbara to appear. Unknown to Otho, however, he was exorcising them both.
Question: Is it just me, or does Christian have a slight speech impediment in this film (such as when he asks Braxton to stop copying what he is saying) compared to the first one, where Ben Affleck was just using his regular voice?
Answer: I noticed that too. The first film did not have that speech pattern. Almost like someone told him autistic people have a different speech pattern, which is false. It bothered me so much.
Answer: I also thought the same, but looking at it again, he's a loner; he barely speaks to anyone, and he has a short fuse but tries so hard to control that side of him. Considering how long ago the first part was released and how it ended, they tried to show that this has been his life all of those years - living alone, barely interacting with anyone and just doing his thing. And the older he grew, the fewer words he had to say.
Question: Voldemort's body was destroyed when he attempted to kill baby Harry. At the beginning of this movie, how does he have a small, frail body?
Answer: Going along with what Lionhead wrote: If I remember correctly from the books, after Voldemort was stopped by baby Harry, his spirit was still able to possess animals. Many of them couldn't survive being possessed for long, so he would move between animals. Wormtail found him in a forest before the events of "Goblet of Fire."
Answer: Adding to the other answers, after baby Harry destroyed Voldemort's body, his remaining soul shard fled to Albania. Voldemort possessed small animals and eventually attached himself to Professor Quirrell's head. After Quirrell's death, Voldemort, a disembodied spectral, again hid in the Albanian forest. Eventually, Pettigrew, in his Animagus rat form, discovered Voldemort's whereabouts from other rats. Pettigrew helped revive Voldemort, using dark magic and a potion to regain a weak, baby-like form. Voldemort was probably still possessing a small mammal, allowing him to drink the potion and transform.
Answer: It is described Voldemort had taken a dark potion that gave him a rudimentary body. The potion was made by Wormtail and was a blend of unicorn blood, Nagini's venom, and several dark spells invented by Voldemort. He had to drink from this potion every few hours to maintain his body or return back to spirit form. It is not made clear how Voldemort managed to drink the potion for the first time whilst still in spirit form though.
But how would drinking a potion be possible if he were only a spirit?
Question: Every Sith apprentice is supposed to eventually kill their master and become the new master, if I'm correct. Isn't this quite risky to the survival of the Sith Order? What if an apprentice defeats their master and decides not to continue?
Answer: They are not "supposed to" do that. In the Sith religion, there are no more than 2 Sith, a master and apprentice. Also, in the Sith religion is the embrace of greed, hatred, and selfishness. This basically encourages every apprentice to eventually kill their master, both convinced that they are more powerful than their master and no longer required, as well as wanting to become a master themselves and take on an apprentice, as part of their religious beliefs. It is a risky way to exist indeed, but that's what the Sith are all about, and it's better than before when there were a lot of them and they had devastating wars amongst themselves that indeed did almost manage to wipe them all out several times. Ironically, this system is better to maintain balance.
Question: What does Nick tell Danny at the party?
Answer: He is fired.
Question: Hartman compliments Pyle after his round of shooting at the range. How could Hartman possibly know how accurate Pyle was from that distance? There's no way he could see if Pyle had hit the target.
Answer: Hartman compliments Pyle based on what he *thinks* happened based on what he saw; this is the same with almost all shooting ranges. When drill sergeants are watching you at the range, they aren't just looking to see if they can see you hit a target; they are looking at your movements. How was your stance? How was your trigger control? How were you holding the weapon? How steady was your aim? Usually, if you're good at things like the aforementioned, they just assume it all worked together in harmony and you hit the target.
Answer: He wouldn't be able to, no. I think this comes under the class of "deliberate mistake", i.e. an inaccuracy that was a choice by Kubrick to advance the plot quickly (establishing Pyle's marksmanship/rifle skills) without an extended sequence showing all of the steps taken to verify how well he'd done.
Question: Why are there a lot of recent internet jokes about Padmé being twice Anakin's age or them having a huge age difference? I thought she was only five or six years older. Of course, age 14-15 is a lot different than being 9-10, but they don't even see each other for another 10 years before they get married.
Answer: While their age difference was a minor consideration, fans had issues with other factors. Padmé was a sophisticated, high-born individual who served as queen and senator and was far more mature, educated, and worldly than Anakin, a former slave. Even ten years later, Anakin, barely beyond his teens, was emotionally immature, somewhat reckless, impulsive, self-centered, and often demonstrated poor judgement. He had little real-world experience, being constantly constrained by Obi-Wan. Plot-wise, Padmé's eventual attraction seemed forced, illogical, and unrealistic given their differences in age, temperament, maturity, and status.
Good points. Five or six years is not an age difference (if both people are legal adults), in my opinion, but Anakin could seem "younger," considering that Jedi don't have "normal" lives.
Question: As I understand, Beetlejuice would come back to life if he successfully married Lydia. So why don't more deceased people marry a living person and come back? The handbook says that most of the living won't see the dead, not all.
Answer: Maybe the marriage requirement is for Beetlejuice in particular, just like him being released when someone says his name three times.
Answer: As you said, most living humans could not see or communicate with the dead. This appears to be a requirement for the deceased to return to the living world. Lydia had the rare ability to see and speak to the dead. Also, many departed souls may not want to return to the living world.
Question: Can anyone translate what Mama and Jake are saying in Italian just after the Goonies enter the restaurant?
Answer: Jake wants to know who the boys are, and Ma says they're customers. Jake replies the place isn't a restaurant, with Ma telling him to shut up and that he doesn't understand anything. Jake finally understands, and after telling the boys to make themselves comfortable, he looks at Ma and tells her to throw them out.
Question: Joker says he "drew" fire watch. Do they draw for it, and he was the unlucky one, or is it on a rota and "drew it" is just his way of wording that it was his turn?
Answer: He's saying it was his turn, and it happened to fall on the last night of boot camp.
Question: What is the reference from Joker regarding John Wayne at the start of the movie? Was it related to what Gny Hartman was saying?
Answer: It was directly related to Gny. Sgt. Hartman. Joker was imitating John Wayne to mock Hartman for his over-the-top behaviour when addressing the recruits. He's implying that Hartman was acting like he was Wayne, a famous movie star known for playing tough, "gung ho" military heroes.
Question: Joker says he drew fire watch. What is fire watch? I assume it's that someone has to be on guard in case they come under fire, but I don't think that would happen at boot camp (which I get is an ironic thing to say given what happens a few minutes later in that scene!).
Answer: Fire watch is just an informal term for sentry duty (to stand watch). I think it is derived from the fact that he will be the only one awake, so he is the only one to warn if there is indeed a fire, even though that's not the main duty. But that's just a guess.
Answer: Would add that the term "fire watch" has a long-time origin and several meanings. A fire watch is someone responsible for observing hot work activity to spot any fires during work operations. It applied to watching for and reporting forest fires during the summer. Also, "signal" fires were once a communication or warning system over long distances that assigned watchers continuously monitored. In the Army, a "fire watch" refers to a security duty assigned to soldiers, particularly during basic training, to monitor the barracks, especially at night. The colloquial phrase, "putting out fires," has come to mean dealing with problems as they occur.
Question: In the Apollo vs Drago fight, is the arena set up so that the crowd only surrounds the ring on three sides? I've always gotten this impression, but it's hard to tell for certain when watching the movie. They never really give a good enough angle.
Answer: Yes, because the golden bull's head of which Apollo descended upon would have obstructed the view from people sitting behind it.
Question: Am I wrong? Didn't Sara write her name and number on the $5 bill and buy mints with it at the newsstand? Then, when she was on the airplane and saw the $5 bill again, it had Johnathan's name on it?
Answer: Jonathan was the one who wrote his name and number on the $5 bill Sara used to buy the mints and then got back later on the plane. Sara actually wrote her name and number in the front of a book she had on her, which she then sold to a bookseller, and Jonathan's fiancée bought it as a wedding gift for him, not realising that it happened to be the same copy Sara had written her details in.
Answer: It's not shown if all three raptors are always in that particular pen, so any answer is speculation. Being that it is rather small, they may have been fed separately there to prevent fighting over food. Also, the park was not yet open to the public, and the raptors appear to be in a holding pen that is off exhibit. That may be the standard feeding procedure, as a live cow being devoured in public view would be too gruesome. They may also have been moved there so Grant and the group would have a better view.
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