Question: Who was the man in the office that was on the phone when Grey barged in, and why did she bring up lingerie?
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Question: Why is Gerry in high school at 11?
Answer: Could be he was smart and was advanced several grades. Could be a combined middle school/high school that's just called a high school.
Answer: It's a 1975 Dodge Ramcharger.
Question: Why did the cable jam when Jim was being pulled into the rescue helicopter?
Answer: Simple malfunction to get the movie going. Also, the cable could have been old and in dire need of replacement.
Moreover, after jamming and before breaking loose, this cable started smoking.
Question: Unless Dylan or a stewardess closed the plane's door, wouldn't passengers get sucked out as she and the would-be bomber parachuted out of it?
Answer: A plane's altitude is a factor. If flying low enough so that the cabin's internal air pressure is equal to the external air pressure, there would not be a huge suction; the danger would be passengers falling out the open door. At a higher altitude, the door being blown open or a hole in the fuselage would suck people out until the pressure equalized within a few minutes. (Those left inside would suffocate without oxygen masks.) It's impossible to open the door if the inner and outer air pressures are unequal. Think of skydivers jumping from planes. The altitude must be under 10,000 feet for divers not to pass out from low oxygen during the descent and be below the sub-freezing air temperatures. The whole scene is ridiculous; the bomb's shockwave would likely kill or seriously injure all three. Jumping from the plane that way could have sucked them into the jet's engine or hit the wing or tail resulting in death.
Answer: Yes, you're correct, they would. But once the door was opened, there was no reclosing it. The way I look at it is that this was just a pre-credit action set piece which had zero to do with the rest of the movie. Similar to the Bond movies, only excruciatingly dumb.
Question: Would Bruce, standing in front of the Gamma Sphere, have really saved Harper's life?
Answer: It's fictional sci-fi movie technology, so it's honestly up to the writers. In the case of the movie as depicted, it seems to have worked. (While there is a real Gammasphere that was used as the very loose basis for the one seen in the movie, its function is entirely different, so it can't really be used as a valid comparison.)
Question: Why didn't Julie Newmar or Eartha Kitt reprise the role of Catwoman?
Answer: The timeline of the movie is important to consider. The 1966 film began production while season 1 of the TV series was being aired. Eartha Kitt didn't play Catwoman until season 3. According to the TV show "Biography", Newmar was suffering from a back injury and unable to reprise her role for the movie. But she was able to recover by the time they started shooting the 2nd season. So, for the movie they hired Meriweather.
Answer: Of the three actresses that portrayed Catwoman, Julie Newmar was the first in the TV series and Eartha Kitt assumed the role after Newmar became unavailable. Lee Meriwether played the character in the movie. All were "guest stars," not regular cast members, so their availability would constantly change as they did other TV shows, movies, plays, etc. Show creator William Dozier originally wanted to first film and release a feature-length Batman movie, using it like a pilot, to introduce the Batman character, then launch the TV show based on it. However, the studio, 20th Century Fox, wanted the TV series first, so the movie was delayed until after the successful first season. During the movie's filming timeframe, Newmar was unavailable (various reasons have been reported about why she did not reprise the role) and Meriwether was cast.
But his surname sounds German. It might suggest that he is an American Neo-Nazi of German descent.
Yes, of German origin. "American" is not a race or ethnicity, is made up of many cultures, and is only a nationality. Klaber is an American citizen likely with German ancestry. American Neo-Nazis are of many different racial backgrounds. They adopt Nazi ideologies.
German is also a nationality, not a race. To be clear.
German is a nationality, referring to citizens of the country of Germany, and also an ethnicity, traditionally characterized by certain genetic traits, certain facial features, light-coloured eyes, blond hair, etc. "American" is only a designation of citizenship, not any particular racial or ethnic makeup.
That's not true. People with those genetic traits (like me) are not "German" or "Germanic." Maybe Aryan or Caucasian. Those are ethnicities. Not German. Germans are only distinguished by their use of the Germanic language, not their appearance. Also, certain Germanic tribes were very far from blond and light-colored eyes.
Question: Why didn't Jon Favreau direct this movie?
Question: What exactly was wrong with Hedy? What made her so messed up?
Answer: Hedy's twin sister drowned when she was a child. She's trying to reform that bond with Allie.
Question: What was BioSyn planning on doing with the dinosaur DNA if Nedry had been successful in getting it to them?
Answer: Cloning their own dinosaurs and opening a rival park.
Answer: Agree with the other answer, but it was revealed later that the dinosaurs were also valuable commodities to sell to private parties for personal zoos, big-game trophy hunting, as bio-weapons, cruel sport competitions similar to rooster fighting, etc. In Jurassic World Dominion, small ones were being cooked and served as a delicacy.
Big Man on a Little Stick - S1-E22
Question: What did Gilligan mean when he told the Professor that by building Duke up he'll be breaking him down?
Question: Why did Stony and Keith never meet up in Mexico at the end? Stony just lost 3 dear friends on top of the 3 family members. Wouldn't she want to be with the last person in the world that knows she exists?
Answer: If someone disappears after committing a serious crime, they must cut past ties to avoid being traced. That includes ending any past romantic relationships that could lead police to their whereabouts. Stony would also not want to ensnare Keith into a life of being on the run, and possibly get him arrested. Their relationship was short-term and likely would not have survived such a stressful and tumultuous scenario. It seems unlikely Keith would give up his stable personal life for such a situation.
Question: I don't know if this is a mistake so I'll ask here: why is there a soldier at the Berlin Rally who has the fraction 2/13 on the collar of his jacket instead of the SS runes? (01:10:01)
Chosen answer: He is not SS but SA. Brown shirts are SA (SturmAbteilung) and SS wore black (and rarely gray). The 2/13 is the unit type and number respectively.
Question: Petunia tells Harry that when Lily, who was underage at the time, would come home from Hogwarts, she would use magic in front of family. Since underage witches and wizards aren't allowed to use magic outside of Hogwarts because it would lead to expulsion, then why wasn't Lily expelled? The Trace was even used to make sure no student ever did.
Answer: J.K. Rowling has been asked this. Her vague explanation was that it was a case of Lily "breaking the rules." She never elaborated on whether Lily was punished, though she obviously was not expelled and probably only disciplined. It would be unlikely that a student would be dismissed for minor infractions. Personally, I'd say it was just one of many minor plot holes throughout the entire HP series that Rowling later has had to clean up with a rather weak explanation.
Answer: It says: "every holiday". Doesn't that mean since she started school? Which would make her underage.
Question: How did the gate that the boys went through in the gyrosphere get broken? It seems to be broken from inside the paddock that the herbivores are in, as you can see claw marks all over it. I doubt it was the Indominus, as all the herbivores seem pretty chill. Plus, I imagine it could only be reached to damage it from the herbivores' side due to it being electrified.
Answer: The implication is the Indominus broke the gate. It may have been far enough away from the big herbivores and stayed close to the fence line that the animals were unaware or unperturbed as long as it kept its distance. The area that the large dinosaurs roam in would be hundreds of acres and they may not have seen the predator yet. The Indominus had shown that the tactical team's electrical weapons had little effect on it, so the electrical fence may have been a minor obstacle.
Question: There's a deleted scene that's on the DVD where Officer Burroughs goes to the break room after his first phone call with Jill and he overhears two other officers talking about the murders at the beginning of the film. Even though it's unlikely he could have known then, why didn't he suspect right away that Jill's situation sounded similar to those murders, and that Jill was in serious danger?
Answer: Because it's unlikely that he knew then.
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Answer: He's the husband of the woman Grey was representing in her introductory scene. She brought up lingerie because she had incriminating photos of him unclothed whilst having an affair.
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