This conversation took place in an airport bar between an air marshal and a flight attendant. They had been friends for a while, even occasionally lovers, but on this day the conversation turns deadly serious.
Flight Attendant: I've got an idea for how we could make us some money.
Air Marshal: I've already got a job
F A: No, I mean real money. Money you could retire on.
A M: I'm listening
F A: Okay, first we find a woman who is an expert in airplane design.
A M: Should be doable (http://www.wai.org/)
F A: Who's American, but living in Europe. And has a daughter.
A M: Okay …
F A: Then we kill her husband by throwing him off the roof of their apartment building, making it look like suicide.
A M: And this makes us money how?
F A: Bear with me. She's going to have to fly back to the states right?
A M: I guess.
F A: That's when we pounce by kidnapping the daughter and convincing the already grief stricken mother that the daughter was never on the plane at all. That in fact she died with the husband.
A M: I think I see where you're going with this.
F A: Then, we tell the captain that the "crazy" lady has a bomb on the plane and wants a whole pile of cash or she's going to blow it up.
Oh I forgot, we put a bomb in the dead husband's coffin beforehand.
A M: Naturally.
F A: So when they bring the money you, as air marshal, will handle the exchange and steal the money.
A M: you've really put some thought into this. It's the perfect crime. The only way I see that it could fail is if the woman we pick is plucky and resilient and uses her extensive knowledge of airplane design to thwart us. But the odds of that happening are pretty small, I say we go for it.
Wait, how do we make sure that nobody else on the plane sees the daughter?
F A: Let's cross that bridge when we come to it.
The rest is movie making history.
"plucky and resilient"
heh.
Hiya Joester! did you pay cash dollars to see that flick in public? (If the answer is 'yes' that's okay because it has Jodi Foster and she's still money in my book.)
I had the good sense to rent it. Its a real gem. bond villians have come up with stupider ideas. They WISH they'd though up snakes on a plane.
After I settled down and realized there were NOT going to be any snakes on this plane (though I continued silent hope for one scarey one) I kind of liked the movie anyway.
Jodie Foster running up and down the ailes like Linda Hamilton were the best parts.
But for the love of gawd, I asked Sally twice last night, but I still can't remember why the husband was killed.
I believe the evil air marshal wrapped up that little thread by saying something like "we killed your husband because we had to have a coffin on board to hide the explosives." Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb plot. Great art direction, good pacing and watching Jodi Foster stress out is one of my very favourite past times. I would never recommend this movie to anybody.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search=snakes+on+a+plane&search_type=search_videos&search=Search
an excellent colection of home made you tube Snakes on a Plane trailers.
I hope my post has brought other to this fine movie experience. I like the iidea of a collection of naratives from the evil genius' point of view.
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This conversation took place in an airport bar between an air marshal and a flight attendant. They had been friends for a while, even occasionally lovers, but on this day the conversation turns deadly serious.
Flight Attendant: I've got an idea for how we could make us some money.
Air Marshal: I've already got a job
F A: No, I mean real money. Money you could retire on.
A M: I'm listening
F A: Okay, first we find a woman who is an expert in airplane design.
A M: Should be doable (http://www.wai.org/)
F A: Who's American, but living in Europe. And has a daughter.
A M: Okay …
F A: Then we kill her husband by throwing him off the roof of their apartment building, making it look like suicide.
A M: And this makes us money how?
F A: Bear with me. She's going to have to fly back to the states right?
A M: I guess.
F A: That's when we pounce by kidnapping the daughter and convincing the already grief stricken mother that the daughter was never on the plane at all. That in fact she died with the husband.
A M: I think I see where you're going with this.
F A: Then, we tell the captain that the "crazy" lady has a bomb on the plane and wants a whole pile of cash or she's going to blow it up.
Oh I forgot, we put a bomb in the dead husband's coffin beforehand.
A M: Naturally.
F A: So when they bring the money you, as air marshal, will handle the exchange and steal the money.
A M: you've really put some thought into this. It's the perfect crime. The only way I see that it could fail is if the woman we pick is plucky and resilient and uses her extensive knowledge of airplane design to thwart us. But the odds of that happening are pretty small, I say we go for it.
Wait, how do we make sure that nobody else on the plane sees the daughter?
F A: Let's cross that bridge when we come to it.
The rest is movie making history.
- joester 6-15-2006 10:41 pm
"plucky and resilient"
heh.
- zuggle (guest) 6-16-2006 4:27 am
Hiya Joester! did you pay cash dollars to see that flick in public? (If the answer is 'yes' that's okay because it has Jodi Foster and she's still money in my book.)
- sally mckay 6-16-2006 6:58 am
I had the good sense to rent it. Its a real gem. bond villians have come up with stupider ideas. They WISH they'd though up snakes on a plane.
- joester 6-16-2006 7:47 am
After I settled down and realized there were NOT going to be any snakes on this plane (though I continued silent hope for one scarey one) I kind of liked the movie anyway.
Jodie Foster running up and down the ailes like Linda Hamilton were the best parts.
But for the love of gawd, I asked Sally twice last night, but I still can't remember why the husband was killed.
- anonymous (guest) 6-28-2006 7:00 pm
I believe the evil air marshal wrapped up that little thread by saying something like "we killed your husband because we had to have a coffin on board to hide the explosives." Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb plot. Great art direction, good pacing and watching Jodi Foster stress out is one of my very favourite past times. I would never recommend this movie to anybody.
- sally mckay 6-28-2006 9:13 pm
http://www.youtube.com/results?search=snakes+on+a+plane&search_type=search_videos&search=Search
an excellent colection of home made you tube Snakes on a Plane trailers.
I hope my post has brought other to this fine movie experience. I like the iidea of a collection of naratives from the evil genius' point of view.
- joester 6-29-2006 1:35 am