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?
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Question: Why does the hospital administrator grill Claire about "unethically" bringing the 5 blood-drained patients into the hospital? Isn't it literally the job of healthcare workers to administer care to people in dire need of it? They later mention she didn't check in the patients, but that sounds more like a procedural issue and not an ethical one.
Question: How did Art the Clown, who is after the costume designer, show up on the roadside with the sign "Circus" when he is a mile away from the gas station? Did he run really that fast?
Answer: Human beings are known for being able to cover ground. In this case, a mile. With relative ease and in no time at all. Plus, Art wasn't human, so maybe it was some form of demon transport.
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: 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: 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: 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: At the beginning of the movie, you see the police talking to Kersey in the hospital scene. But yet he knows exactly what had been stolen from his home. How did he have this information if he had just found out at the hospital that this had even taken place?
Question: The payment sequence in the title montage shows several wire transfers of at least $75,000 for each "closure," but one of the last payments shown was ¥75,000,000, which is worth a little over $500,000. Why did she get such a huge pay bump in Japanese currency even though the sending bank account was Chinese and her bank is in London? (00:11:07)
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.
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: 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: I'm not sure if this is a mistake or not, so I'll ask it here. In one scene, Bridget zip lines down to Arnold, Gerald, and Helga on the crashed bus. She uses a device attached to her sleeve to hook a zip line onto the bus, but when she goes down the zip line, it extends past the screen behind her. What did she do there? Did she attach the device to the sky, or something? (01:07:10)
Murder on the Thirtieth Floor - S10-E15
Question: What did Edward mean in his note to Jessica that he was right in the first place?
Answer: At the start, Edward told Jessica that he loved the changes she'd made to her new book. Later, as his mental condition declined, he said the book was terrible and he wouldn't publish it until she made improvements. Edward's later note to Jessica was to apologise for saying her novel was bad and that he had been right about it the first time.
Question: Why is Jimeno so out of breath and tired-looking when near the cart at the beginning?
Answer: That cart was very, very heavy.
Question: How exactly did Zia become a paleoveterinarian if she had never even seen a dinosaur beforehand? Wouldn't she need some practical experience on a living subject?
Answer: Would add to the other answer that while "paleo-veterinarian" is not a formally recognized degree or specialization in veterinary medicine, it is a field of study and practice that involves applying veterinary knowledge to the study of extinct animals, especially dinosaurs. This includes understanding and theorizing how their anatomy, physiology, and diseases might have been, and applying this knowledge to modern animals. Though Zia apparently had no hands-on experience with living dinosaurs, she would have studied fossils and also birds and reptiles that had some relationship to extinct dinosaurs. She may also have had some access to InGen's scientific research, read their scientific publications, etc.
Answer: I think you could make a compelling argument that paleoveterinarians are probably held to a different standard than normal veterinarians because it's an extremely niche study. Being a paleoveterinarian is wildly specific, and having the chance for practical hands-on experience with dinosaurs would be rare and difficult to the point of being borderline impossible. Dinosaurs are only in a few specific locations, and there have been repeated incidents basically necessitating that people keep away outside of very rare exceptions. But you can't just not have them, so getting licensed is probably based more on study than experience.
Question: How did Tom keep getting out of the bio-bed if he was asleep and locked in?
Answer: The bio-chambers could be opened from the inside and exited if needed. The induced stasis was not intended as a deep sleep or long-term, but only temporary to protect the crew while traveling through hostile space conditions. External circumstances could awaken crew members. Tom was claustrophobic and highly nervous about undergoing stasis. His anxiety may have prevented a deeper sleep. Tom was essentially sleepwalking and had no memory of leaving the bio-chamber.
Question: Has it ever been explained how the Resistance knew that Skynet was sending a Terminator to go back in time to kill Sarah? If so, how did they know?
Answer: It's a time loop. When Reese was sent back, he told Sarah everything. She told her son, John, everything. He knew the day was coming; that's why he and Reese were close friends and why John gave Reese a picture of Sarah.
Answer: Reece explained it when telling Sarah. The Resistance fought and entered somewhere (can't remember where) and realised Skynet had already sent a Terminator back to 1984.
Answer: I'm not 100% sure, but I think it was, "We come in peace! We are hunting the men that did this!"