Continuity mistake: When Simon Phoenix gets out of the sewer system (after gunning it out with the rebels and John Spartan) his left eye has the brown contact and his right eye has the blue one after going the entire movie with those contacts in the opposite eyes. (01:30:25)
Demolition Man (1993)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Marco Brambilla
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Sandra Bullock, Wesley Snipes, Benjamin Bratt, Nigel Hawthorne
Raymond Cocteau is killed by Phoenix, who tries to re-animate the entire cryoprison to start a new reign of terror. Spartan arrives at the cryoprison and causes the unstable Phoenix to destroy it while trying to kill him. In the process, Phoenix is frozen and then Spartan kicks off his head, killing him. Spartan tells Chief George Earle and Edgar Friendly to accomodate each other and form a new government to replace the late Cocteau. Spartan finally gets to kiss Huxley over the credits.
Taity
Lenina Huxley: Chief, you can take this job, and you can shovel it.
John Spartan: Take this job... And shovel it.
Lenina Huxley: Yeah?
John Spartan: Close enough.
Question: Why was Simon allowed a damn at the joy joy feeling machine thingy while John was fined for one while talking to his friend?
Answer: Note that when Spartan is fined for swearing, the machine uses his full name. When Phoenix is fined, the machine only refers to him as "You" ("You are fined 1 credit...") as he isn't recognised because he doesn't have a chip. Presumably he's expected to take the ticket and pay the fine even if the machine didn't automatically know it was him.
Also notable is that when Lenina swore she was fined only one half a credit instead of a full credit. Probably because she is a cop.
No, I think she got fined only a half credit because it was a *sotto voce* violation (under her breath).
Strange, I can swear somebody already mentioned that once before.
Wait a minute, is that trivia?
Answer: Phoenix has no sub-dermal microchip in his hand. Per Huxley, all transactions are done with this chip. That would mean fines are also generated per person based on this chip too.
Except when Simon is trying to get a gun, he keeps swearing at the booth which constantly fines him.
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Answer: I'm assuming you're referring to when Simon says "Damn, I'm possessed!" He was hacking the machine when he said it, perhaps he'd corrupted the program or shut off the microphone as a side effect?
Grumpy Scot