Yup, that's good to know. Unfortunately, Hollis drowned. Noah Cross most likely ordered his assassination due to the "water thing" and also because Hollis was trying to protect Katherine. Noah Cross is too wealthy and too powerful. There's no way Gettis could pin the murder on him. Cross owns the police, anyway...

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Gittes is great at nailing people with their pants down 😂 Yes, he is smart and capable. But that isn't enough to overcome a wealthy, powerful opponent. You're right, he's rash. A few different decisions could've changed the final outcome. Oh, I didn't realize Mulwray was missing a shoe when he was pulled out. Great attention to detail! Thanks for sharing your thoughts! 😊

James Hong...Lo Pan in Big Trouble, restaurant owner in Seinfeld, killed himself in Airplane!, more than 400+ credits to his name. Legend.

Oh, no wonder he looks quite familiar to me. So he was Gong Gong. I couldn't recognize him as the "Japanese man who committed harakiri" in Airplane! though 😂

Glad you enjoyed it 😊 Yes, there are details which are hard to catch on the first watch.

That's the best time to use that line 😂

I see... At the end of the movie, I had a hard time immediately discerning what was true or false. The truth was obscured by layers of lies. Thanks for clarifying 😊

@@henryellowYes, it isn't an easy, formulaic movie and also not easy to react to. Btw, the actor who played Walsh and utters the indelible final line was also in The Birds. He was the patron in the cafe who says something like all birds should be exterminated. Joe Mantell was his name, I think.

There are references constantly that indicate that this is during the 1930’s and society is dealing with the effects of the Great Depression. Also, the clothing and hair styles and models of the cars are clearly from the ‘30’s. Photos were (and still are) developed in large format from negatives like they show, especially for professional uses. 1910 was the Edwardian age when women wore floor length dresses with bustles and corsets and cars were the Model Ts, electricity was rare and California had not yet experienced a population boom (that was more obvious after Hollywood expanded in the 1920’s.)

Some movies move at a fast pace, so we don't have enough time to consider "what would I do in that situation" before the next scene comes along. It depends on the movie and genre though. Some movies are better fast, while others are better slow. Thanks for sharing! 😊

@@henryellow I'd say even things like Power Rangers still use all the camera tricks, timings etc that are well studied to trigger your brain into deciding reactions. Sometimes conscious, continuously unconscious. If your brain just felt like you were a passive witness, I'm sceptical about whether you'd get the adrenaline of a good action movie, or leave the room during a scary movie. One of the classic 'what would I do?' reactions is flight or fight, not an intellectual thing. There's awesome neuroscience in a similar field. After my degree, at one point I allowed myself to get wired up in transcranial magnetic stimulation at a big London university. They'd do things like shut off my mouth (I couldn't move it) in relation to things I was looking at one screen. What this work into 'mirror neurons' shows is that our body begins to take decisions on how to respond physically before we even decide to consciously. I guess that's already fairly obvious regarding instinctual reactions (jumping to avoid something etc), but it happens almost across the board. Implying that our consciousness might be little more than someone sitting in our back seat pretending we're in charge, as our body drives itself (which isn't great for free will).

Do you mean that they "shut off your mouth" using magnetic stimulation to your brain 😯? That's crazy.

Of course the consciousness isn't just a passive observer with no control over the body (that would be like a mental prison). We make plenty of conscious decisions every day.

@@henryellow Yeah! I had a big Ghostbusters style helmet thing on my head and they could target bits of my control systems and switch them off. Fortunately they didn't switch off my heart or some such!

Awesome, looks like LA Confidential is another one to look forward to! 👍

Glad you enjoyed it! 😊 I'm sure plenty of Noah Crosses abuse their power, and yet stay out of the media (so no one ever finds out about them).

You believe the news? Dupe.