Question : When Clyde is about to die from the bomb, why didn't he just end the call on the phone he was calling from? He could have probably cancelled the detonation. Chosen answer: Unfortunately, that wouldn't have done it.
Once the phone on the bomb recieved the signal there was no going back. Question : Ames was in prison for 10 years and after that time he was executed? Why after 10 years? Answer: The appeals process for capital murder cases is long and arduous, and it is also automatic in most jurisdictions. It typically takes years for those on death row to actually be executed. Question : I used to work in a prison as an intake nurse, and I am wondering how in the hell did the warden and guards who were watching the food go through the X-ray scanner not see that the bone in the T-bone steak could be used as a shank?
It could be seen on the monitor, so it was obvious. Either sloppy writing of the movie or it just wanted to show the jailers were just inept. Answer: I think you have given two good answers to your own question. Unless someone knows more about the writing of the movie, it's either a plot convenience or a subtle suggestion that the prison isn't well run. Question : What did Clyde use to stab his cellmate in the neck in order to be sent to solitary confinement?
Answer: The bone from his T-bone steak. Question : After Clyde has butchered Darby in the warehouse, he tells the kidnapped cop "Thanks for the car" and drives off with his own vintage car. What kind of car was Clyde's ride? Answer: It's a Cadillac 60 Special. Question : I never saw it from the beginning. Does it actually show the home invasion, or is he just telling us about what happened? Answer: The theater version shows the wife's rape and murder, but not the daughter's.
When the little girl interrupts her mother's rape, Darby smiles and laughs as he tells Clyde and Ames, "I'll take care of her, kids like me. Answer: We see Clyde answer the door and immediately get assaulted, but we do not see his wife's rape, nor the murders of the wife and daughter. Question : Why was Clyde in prison? Answer: He's in prison for killing Darby and Ames, though factually, since he hasn't even been charged with either murder, he should be in county lockup.
This is a pretty glaring goof for a film that makes commentary on America's justice system. Question : Why was the DNA inadmissible? Answer: Nick also points out that the crime scenes are always contaminated. The evidence was probably contaminated by the cops.
Answer: The reason the DNA was inadmissible was not elaborated on. We're only told it was inadmissible because of the "exclusionary rule. The why was not explained and anything would be a guess something like when they were arrested and there was no probable cause to take a DNA sample. But it's seems more of plot convenience to move the story forward quickly. Clyde passing out had nothing to do with the DNA being inadmissible, it only meant his eyewitness testimony may be considered unreliable.
Therefore the DA's Office was not willing to try both men using Clyde as a witness, but go with the plea deal. Answer: Because Clyde passed out. Factual error : In the scene when the police are heading to Clyde's house to arrest him, this tactic is highly unrealistic.
In real life, when a person is simply a suspect in an investigation, the police do not all drive to the suspect location with lights and sirens going. This loses the element of surprise. They didn't even know if he was home, anyway. Nick Rice : You end this!
Clyde Shelton : I'm just gettin' warmed up. Trivia : The same cemetery seen here was also used in Transformers. Separate from membership , this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases.
Movies and TV have tended to portray Bonnie and Clyde as habitual bank robbers who terrorized financial institutions throughout the Midwest and south. This is far from the case.
In the four active years of the Barrow gang, they robbed less than 15 banks, some of them more than once. The few successful bank robberies associated with Bonnie and Clyde were mostly committed by Clyde and criminal associate Raymond Hamilton. Bonnie would sometimes drive the getaway car, but often she was not involved at all, staying at a hideout while the rest of the gang robbed the bank. Banks were a complicated proposition for Bonnie and Clyde, and when they were on their own, they rarely attempted bank jobs.
They more commonly robbed small grocery stores and gas stations, where the risk was lower and the getaways easier. The frequency of these robberies made Bonnie and Clyde easier to track, and they found it more and more difficult to settle anywhere for very long. The most famous picture of Bonnie shows her holding a pistol, her foot up on the bumper of a Ford, a cigar clamped in her mouth like Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar. Newspapers all over the country reprinted the cigar picture.
All evidence shows, however, that Bonnie was a cigarette smoker like Clyde Camels seemed to be their preferred brand. The mythic image of Bonnie as a mean mama puffing away on a stogie is just that: an image. On the other hand, Bonnie liked to drink whiskey, and several eyewitnesses from the time remember seeing her drunk.
Clyde shied away from alcohol, feeling that it was important for him to be alert in case they needed to make a fast getaway. Not generally known is the fact that Bonnie got married when she was Her husband's name was Roy Thornton, and he was a handsome classmate at her school in Dallas. The decision to marry was not hard for the young girl to make; her father was dead, her mother worked a hard job at a factory, and Bonnie herself had little prospect of doing much else but waiting tables or working as a maid.
Marriage seemed like a way out. The marriage was a disaster. Bonnie died with her wedding ring still on her finger. Divorce was not really an option for a known fugitive. Convicted on multiple counts of stealing cars and robbing stores as well as one jailbreak , Clyde was sentenced to 14 years at Eastham Prison Farm, a notoriously harsh hard-labor penitentiary, in Using an ax, he or a fellow inmate chopped off two toes on his left foot.
Clyde was driving in his socks in the summer of when Bonnie would suffer an even greater injury. He missed the turn and plunged down into a dry riverbed. Bonnie was carried to a nearby farmhouse, and only the quick application of baking soda and salve stopped the burning away of her skin and tissue. Because the couple had a lot of experience with nursing gunshot wounds, the leg eventually healed, but not properly, since Clyde could not take her to a real doctor.
Witnesses described Bonnie as hopping more than walking for the last year of her life, and often Clyde would simply carry her when she had to get somewhere. Unlike many of their contemporaries in the criminal world, Clyde and Bonnie were not lone wolves depending only on each other and a small group of like-minded criminals.
They both had devoted families who stuck by them through their worst times, and they constantly made every effort to stay in touch with and support their relatives. Bonnie and Clyde made frequent trips back to the West Dallas area, where their families lived, throughout their criminal career. Vigilante movies have a tendency to revolve around antiheroes who have lost their families or been wronged by the system. Michael Winner's Death Wish provided the template for films of this ilk back in , and most of them have adhered to a similar format since then.
Law Abiding Citizen doesn't stray too far from the tried-and-tested formula, but F. Gary Gray's thriller also takes some detours into gross-out horror territory, reminiscent of the Saw franchise and The Silence of the Lambs. Law Abiding Citizen stars Gerard Butler as Clyde Shelton, a man who loses everything and goes on the rampage after the system fails to adequately punish his family's killers.
However, what makes this particular vigilante unique is that he's in jail and able to slaughter his targets from a prison cell thanks to some elaborate underground tunnels. Jamie Foxx plays Nick Rice, an attorney who finds himself tangled up in Clyde's elaborate game of revenge after the deal he offered as prosecutor allowed the killers a lighter sentence for killing Clyde's family. This all leads to a shocking and violent climax, but what makes the ending so interesting? As with many vigilante movies, Law Abiding Citizen posits the argument that there are flaws in the justice system.
Clyde isn't only interested in punishing the killers who ruined his life; he wants to destroy those who enabled them to walk free in the first place. Clyde's final mission sees him trying to blow up City Hall after the mayor calls an emergency meeting, with all of the judicial figures, while they're all in one place, but Nick is around to thwart his plans.
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