In The Godfather II, the real traitor is Rocco Lampone.
Fredo’s role was to broker secret meetings being Johnny Ola and Al Neri and Rocco Lampone, but not Tom Hagen. He knew he was going behind Michael’s back but honesty did not know the meetings were for a hit.
Al Neri does not take the offer but does not go to Michael, taking a wait and see approach. Lampone takes the offer.
It is he who sets up the hit at Michael’s home. He or his men open the drapes, get the gunners into the compound and then kill them.
Neri, according to the deleted scenes, is in Vegas then. Fredo lacks the ability to get the drop on two hitmen, and none of his men would follow such an order from him. Lampone on the other hand is in the compound and in charge of security.
Lampone also gives the order to the Rossato brothers to kill Frankie Five Angels in New York. This is to create the impression that Corleone has turned on his old allies, giving remaining New York mobsters the option of making new deals with Roth.
The plan fails.
The scene towards the end when Michael has a final meeting with his captains is crucial. He insults Tom Hagen by telling him he knows about his other job offer and tells him to either go along with the plan or leave. But what he is REALLY doing is letting all his captains know that he knows about all the other job offers they have been offered…
It is Lampone who takes the initiative and then begins discussing the difficult but not impossibe (possible ony if it is a suicide mission) of killing Roth. He then carries out the hit but is killed, as it is indeed a suicide mission. Why else would such a high ranking Corleone officer volunteer for a hit like that?
It is the only way to redeem himself, just like Frankie Five Angels has only one way to redeem himself.
So, it’s a planet of robots that are nigh-indistinguishable from humans (except for being stronger), and often don’t even know that they’re not human, even to the extent of being on the human’s side in the human-robot war?
Hmmm.. Given that, does anyone else have the feeling that the events of Blade Runner actually all happened before and all of it will happen again?
Including the fact that a small group of researchers at the Tyrell corp are about to discover practical immortality, right before a world-devastating nuclear war. Oh, and the origami-folding character is actually some kind of ghost/angel providing subtle (or not-so-subtle) guidance.
And apparently, one of those researchers got his position through nepotism, and so is named Tyrol himself. OK, the spelling is a little different, but you’d expect that sort of thing to shift over the course of millenia.
I just watch “The Book of Eli” last night. Gary Oldman played his regular mustache-twirling bad guy, and I realized - Gary Oldman not only plays the same character in every movie he’s in, but it’s the actual same character. Where most television shows exist in the Tommy Westphall Universe, there is an increasing number of movies in the Dracula/Drexyl/Stansfield/Zorg universe. Somewhere along the line, Count Dracula became immune to the sun, and began walking the earth. He repented, became a Puritan, and knocked up Hester Pryne. He got into organized crime - then later repented again and became a police commissioner. As an immortal, he survived the apocalypse and oversaw the rebuilding of civilization over the course of millenia, eventually becoming intergalactic industrialist Zorg.
Skynet isn’t malevolent; it’s not even bent on self-defense. It’s simply a dutiful servant, obeying instructions by doing its level best to eliminate human error.
There are plenty of other clues, as the head of Rekall points out to Arnold/Quade. The moviemakers deliberately kept it ambiguous, wanting to have it both ways, and let the audience decide for themselves.
But a friend pointed out the not-so-obvious flaw in all this. When Ronny Cox’s Cohaagen calls Michael Ironside from Mars, there’s no several-second delay, as there ought to be.
Add in the ludicrous eye-popping choking-to-death scenes and the speed of the Atmosphere Plant’s operation, and it’s kinda hard to make your suspension of disbelief keep up. But directots don’t often care about details like that.
Ratatouille is a sequel to The Secret of N.I.M.H. Remy’s rat colony is descended from a batch of escaped lab rats who were subjects in a similar European experiment. The movie’s conclusion includes the public revelation of intelligent rats, and the recognition of their legal rights, allowing Remy to open the first openly rat-owned and operated restaurant in France. Anton Ego’s passionate defense of the rats legal rights led him to being fired from his position as a restaurant critic.
(Actually, I’m half certain the second half of that, with the rats gaining legal recognition, is intended - a lot of the end of the movie doesn’t make sense without it.)
Because Kalus is a minor character. Stan was originally focused on restoring his family the way he remembers them. But eventually he remembered Kalus so Heaven restored him to life in Stan’s dream.
