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On 28-Dec-04, at 10:15 PM, Vince Keenan wrote:
>
> Stewart wrote:
>
> 1) prosecutors don't get hit in the US, and 2)
Cruise already knew
> about
> her. She was the first target, and he had already
visited the building
> looking for her at the start of the film. In fact
Foxx only met him
> because
> he was coming out of her building after not finding
her.
>
> #1 may be true, but that doesn't mean it could never
happen. As for
> #2, I
> didn't interpret the film that way. I thought Cruise
was at the
> building at
> the beginning of the film to get the lay of the land
and to pick up
> the card
> key that would allow him to come back at night and
make the hit when
> fewer
> people were around.
>
That was my understanding of it too -- indeed, I think that
the Foxx character speculates something just like that when
he is trying to warn the prosecutor.
But I think that Stewart's point was more to do with Cruise's
earlier insistence that he needed to recover the files to
find out who his targets were. If he already knew one of
them, why make such a fuss and insist that Foxx go through
the risky charade of pretending to be him? I think that there
are a few possible answers to this. Firstly, he needed to
know who the fourth target was. Second, he needed more
information about the fifth target -- the workings of the
building's security system, for instance. Third, he already
surmised that Foxx's earlier customer was a young woman who
worked in the prosecutor's building. Given that he needed
Foxx's cooperation, why risk having him guess that that woman
might be at risk?
These are mostly speculation on my part, and I guess that the
film is a bit hazy on the finer points. But I don't think it
needed to much suspension of disbelief to enjoy the superb
atmosphere and, moreover, the wonderful evocation of LA at
night.
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