Bad Moments in Great Films

[BigPoppa]

It always bugs me in scenes like the one where they shoot Stacks that no one worries about leaving fingerprints. These are professional killers, and they prints everywhere.

[daryn]

what kind of prints are you talking about? like.. on the doorknob? the coffee pot? those aren't really incriminating prints. wow, they've been to his apartment. amazing.

[Borodog]

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Uh huh. Tell you what. You go find a bad mother [censored] black hitman and start calling black people the N word in front of him, then come back and post your trip report.

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Did you even understand that part of the movie? The reason Jules didn't/couldn't say [censored] was because Jimmy was doing him a huge favor by getting them off of the road.

"You don't wanna [censored] my [censored] up? You're [censored] my [censored] up now!"

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The next time a black friend asks you a favor, see if it get you a "Use the N Word Free Card". Especially if he's a hitman.

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Also, Jimmy's wife was black.

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This is the best argument yet, and it's still weaksauce.

[daryn]

plus nobody knows the relationship between jimmy and jules. they're friends maybe? i dunno. jules knows he is [censored] and needs jimmy's help on top of that. maybe jimmy saved jules' life in the past.. WHO KNOWS.. NOT YOU GUYS.

[BigPoppa]

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what kind of prints are you talking about? like.. on the doorknob? the coffee pot? those aren't really incriminating prints. wow, they've been to his apartment. amazing.

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In that scene, the coffeepot. He starts making coffee, then leaves it there when they leave. The partially made coffee could be used to show that he was there near the time of death (or at least pretty recently). I also wouldn't want to leave the most recent set of prints (those laid over every other set) on the doorknob right after a murder.

[Triumph36]

boro,

this point is quite nitty. especially when you consider that you have no IDEA what jules and jimmy's past relationship is

why not consider that the wolf couldn't've got to the house when he said in morning LA rush hour traffic? i mean c'mon

[johnnylovescandy]

Did anyone read the novel upon which "Scent of A Woman" was based (by Giovanni Arpino)? I don't believe Col. Slade (Pacino's character) was really blind in that story, based on several key scenes.

At his brother's dinner, for example, the brother in-law berates Col. Slade in front of Charlie, while Slade's brother repeatedly snaps at him to shut up. This entire scene seems filled with irony, as though the brother in-law is the only person seated at the dinner table who is "blind" to the truth about Col. Slade. How would Col. Slade manage to juggle grenades in the barracks and lose only his sight while another officer escapes unharmed?

The Ferrari scene is suspect, too.

Then by the time Charlie tries to stop Col. Slade from blowing his brains out near the end of the movie, I'm convinced that Col. Slade's "blindness" is just utter contempt for society (as when he tries pissing outside the hotel in NYC). In a hotel scene, Charlie even asks, "Col. are you looking at me?"

I'm just wondering if there's evidence in novel that Pacino's character wasn't blind. Either way, this was one of my favorite performances...

[Phresh]

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The next time a black friend asks you a favor, see if it get you a "Use the N Word Free Card". Especially if he's a hitman.

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The level of stupidity you are currently displaying is the kind of stupidity you can only possess while being smart.

[xxThe_Lebowskixx]

Scent of a Woman is a remake.

[BigPoppa]

It is pretty strange that he lost his eyesight to grenades but has no visible scar tissue on his face. I'd figure that a close quarters grenade blast that hit both eyes would likely take the whole face with it.