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In The Departed, Costigan gave Madelyn a letter, and told her not to open it unless something happened to him. She obviously opened it, because something happened to him. She already knew that Billy and Colin were in contact because of the tapes that Billy mailed to him. Clearly, Billy's note said "If I die, tell Dignum that it was Sullivan." Billy had hoped that Anthony Anderson's character brought Dignum to the rooftop, but he didn't, and his letter to Madelyn was his backup plan to get Sullivan. Dignum for the win. How was this confusing for anyone?
when i watched the movie initially, i just assumed, Dignam new Billy was undercover, so when he died and Colin was the last man standing, he put two and two together
Same, I thought no way would Costigan be dumb enough to just hand evidence to Madelyn. Costigan would've had a plan to send a copy of it to someone in the police precinct - and in the end it was revealed to be Sullivan.
@@arcadion448 Costigan gave that letter to a "citizen"... Not anyone in the force, or anyone in the mob. That citizen was Madelyn.... She was ultimately the person responsible for bringing Colin down.... Hence her looks of betrayal and disbelief at the funeral of William Costigan Jr... Madelyn didn't give Billy's letter to a 'Cwap'... She gave it to Dignum, who just happened to be a cwap who just so happened to have the bwalls to finish the rat (who was Sullivan) once and for all... Dignum for the win.
Also, Dignam already had good reasons to suspect Colin, He got on a leave for 2 weeks because he struck him in the face when he couldn't accept that captain Queenan got tailed (and killed). He probably already knew back then but Billy's letter was the final straw.
Watch GotG volume 1 again. The Collector knows of the existence of Groot's species (flora colossus), he's just never actually *MET* one before: "I never thought I'd meet a Groot. Sir, you must allow me to pay you now so that I may own your carcass. At the moment of your death, of course." It's more than likely that the MCU just never goes into any detail about Groot or his species or his planet because it's completely irrelevant. As for The Collector, I would imagine there are many things in the universe he's never heard of.
also, we learn Asgard is a menagerie of people displaced or without homes and it is their combined cultures forming one. the sort of society that makes sure nothing gone is lost.
On the subject of Frank Abignale Jr passing the bar in Catch Me If You Can, I passed the NY Bar after two months of study, and the "education" that I got from going to law school for three years really didn't have much of an impact. Why? Because law school doesn't actually teach you the relevant law you're likely going to practice, nor how to actually be a lawyer. You don't learn trial skills, you get maybe one class on legal writing (but you waste your time writing the kind of internal memos that you'll never actually use in practice instead of actually drafting legal documents). You learn mostly theory, and federal rules and guidelines that may serve as a template for states to follow, but it's never a one-for-one thing. And if anyone actually practiced law the way they took a law school exam, they would get disbarred for malpractice so fast it would make their grandchildren dizzy. Of all the lies Frank told, him buckling down and studying to take the bar isn't really all that farfetched.
Yeah, pretty much everyone in my law school class took a bar exam prep course after graduation. It was more than two weeks (maybe 6-8?) but not that far off, and not too far from what Frank did.
My husband is a lawyer and does work for a company that does Bar prep courses as well as law school study courses and everything you say is 100 percent correct.
Oh I found out on an obscure website years ago. One of the writers to the movie was at a Con. If I remember correctly two of the shells are used to spread the cheeks apart and the 3rd is used to scrap the excess waste from your butt.
@tdthib5530 I like that theory. Especially since Greek mythological said the soul could be removed from the back of the neck, and Wallace always had a bandage on his neck. 🤔
@@shadowfox7686 I know that's a fan theory but my issue with that is why would he ever give his soul to three douchebags even if there are his business partners. It could have been anything from cash to drugs, which most likely it was supposed to represent
I always figured it was Klytus, somehow returned from the dead. He seemed to be some sort of cyborg, so repair or reactivation in a new body doesn't seem too outlandish.
One unanswered question this video missed is how Maz Kanata ended up with the Skywalker lightsaber. When Han Solo asked her in the Force Awakens, Maz told him it's a good question for another time, and the question was never answered.
According to Paul Verhoven, Mars was entirely dreamt by Quaid. Watch the final kiss between him and Melina... The screen fades to white, not black, indicating Quaid's final descent into psychosis.
Total Recall: It was real. Originally, Verhoeven wanted it to be a dream and then he changed his mind. The Thing: Childs is the thing. He drinks from MacReady's bottle, unafraid of any contamination because he's The Thing. Dignam deduced who was the rat because Sullivan was the only one left who knew about extracting Costigan.
By the end of the movie the thing was not in stealth and infiltration mode, there was no reason for the thing to take Childs place, the thing would've know that was not for drinking after the first try
Actually the Thing was already answered years ago by Carpenter himself confirmed that 2002 video game is canon and sequel to his film Macready and Childs are not the Thing
Like the “answers” to the mystery in Inception, there has never been a definitive answer given because every answer has been contradicted by another “official” answer
As I recall Costigan gave a package to Sullivan's wife, his doctor/lover, and a letter. I haven't seen it recently. The cold shoulder Sullivan got from her at Costigan's funeral confirmed it they were the tapes and she probably read the letter. Dignam got them later. He doesn't know any Shakespeare or so he says.
The question of how did Dignam know that Sullivan was Costello's mole in the police force really isn't much of a question. Dignam suspected, shortly before being suspended after Captain Queenan's death, that Sullivan was the rat. My belief is that off-camera, before his own murder, Billy Costigan managed to communicate confirmation of that to Dignam...probably through the doctor.
Ok... so I usually love the content, but seriously? Frank Abagnale Jr. is a real person who really did the things in the movie - disputedly. I attended one of his talks years ago. While yes, technically the movie kinds leaves it hanging, it isn't a cliffhanger. Maybe this movie could've been left off the list.
'How did Dignam know Sullivan was the rat?' Everyone else was dead. Mind you, if Dignam was the guy who did his job, he should have had enough of an idea for half the things in the movie not to happen, and the other half should never have happened anyway.
I always thought that whatever Leo left for his psychologist girlfriend included a note to give a bunch of info to Dignam. That's how he knew Matt Damon was the rat.
Sullivan Deleted the files that contain the information on Dicapio's character. Only two other people know of the files and they were both dead. Dignam just put two and two together.
Well he suspected him right after the death of the Captain, Billy being killed and Sullivan being there on the scene just confirmed it for him. It would be pretty obvious to a senior detective what happened.
@@JoshR813that and Dignam already suspected him after the captains death, him being the last one on scene where Billy was shot just confirmed it to him.
@@siewheilou399 They definitely use the comics as source material and pull alot of stuff from them, but they also change much so as to better fit the aesthetics, sensibility and budget of the very different media of film. If they succeed or not is a matter of debate.
Geez, if only Total Recall had included a line towards the beginning like “Blue Sky on Mars? hahahahaha” so that you’d know at the end that the blue sky signified that it was all a dream. Oh, wait, they did. And David’s plan is pretty obvious. In Prometheus, he realizes that something made man, man made android, and now it’s time for android to make the next superior being. Do y’all listen to dialogue?
Per the director and screen writer, there are just about an equal number of clues both ways. At no point is it made clear which one is true. For instance, just because the guy mentions blue skies doesn't eliminate or confirm either possibility.----“Total Recall doesn’t say whether it’s reality or it is a dream, you know? It’s really saying there’s this reality and there’s that reality, and both exist at the same time, because you look at Total Recall there is never a preference, let’s say, taken by me or the scriptwriter, to say this is really what he dreams about and this is the truth.” ~Verhoeven (And yes, he knows better than you do)
@@Tanstaafl_74 Thank you for your comment. It was informative without being condescending (unlike the OP). Saying Verhoeven knows better isn't snippy at all, merely factual.
Still the hill I will die on. Verbal Kent was not Kaiser Soze. It was Kobiashi, the Lawyer. The whole point of using the Usual Suspects to attack the boat was to get the one guy who could identify him. And now, the master criminal that no one knows is going to go sit in a police station, talk to the cops so there are 100 people who can identify him. There is no one alive that met Kobiashi. No one left to identify him. Except for the one person he trusts more than anyone- Verbal Kent.
Dignam had everything required to deduce who the real rat was. He KNEW FOR A FACT, that Bill Costigan wasnt the rat as despite his actions he clearly respected the work he was doing and him as a person so...When Costigan was killed, it shined the light directly at who Bill was going after right beforehand. Any number of ways to obtain that particular information, from a simple question to a colleague about who Costigan spoke with directly before bolting the station, Costigans gf or whatever title you'd give her being told off screen by Billy that Dignam was the only person in the police station that he 100% trusted because Dignam was there at the beginning and was in on the undercover operation, anything. Also, remember that Dignam wasn't some idiot, he was a total price but the guy was very smart. There was plenty of information to start him looking at Sullivan and when Costigan dies, it cements that he was the rat and the cause. So in revenge he kills Sullivan, partly because it's the right thing to do, partly to eliminate that particular threat, and mostly simply for vengeance about his boss and Costigan being murdered. Had Costigan killed Sullivan though, Dignam wouldn't have thought Bill was the rat as he know beyond all doubt that Bill Costigan was clean.
I don't think Frank lied about passing the bar exam. He passed by watching TV for two weeks and maybe getting a few books on law or hanging around a courthouse. It worked when he wanted to be a doctor so why wouldn't it work if he wanted to be a lawyer?
I know in the original film, he confesses everything to his therapist and told her what to do if he died and who would’ve killed him. I guess that was lost between Hong Kong and Boston.
In Inglourious Basterds, the status to some of the Basterds are never shown by the end of the movie. They split off to do they're part of the mission but are never heard from again. Were they successful and escape? Killed? Captured? No idea.
That was supposed to be King Kong. They landed on skull island allegedly but I can’t remember where I read that. The director I think was going to make a kong movie.
10:33 a guy named Peter Watts wrote a really great and unforgettable short story I read like 12 years ago, called The Things. It’s a shortened version of the movie, but from the alien’s point of view. It does answer this question, though of course it’s not official. It’s freely available online I believe-the Clarkes World podcast did it several years ago, and they usually have their stuff posted online. I really recommended highly, it’s an extremely interesting change of perspective.
@@Deuteromis well that’s the question, isn’t it. Is it actually evil if what you’re doing is trying to reset the natural order of things as you see them? Or is evil only measured by the outside observers? I’m not going to say anymore in case anyone here actually reads that story, which as I said, I highly recommend. I’m still thinking about it 12-13 years after reading it (or listening to it, since I listened to the podcast version) and I read a ridiculous amount of fiction.
Checked out the story, interesting read, thanks. It's been years since I've seen the movie because it scared the crap out of me but I don't think the implication was ever that the Thing was evil? Just like Xenomorphs aren't evil and sharks aren't evil, etc... there's no general malice, just survival of their species vs ours --I mean if we're calling out any species for "evil' behavior other than humans it would be Predators. @@FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker
Pretty sure Billy's letter that he gave Madolyn is the proof of Colin being the rat. He said to only open it if something happened to him or he asks her too. Once he died, she must've opened it, and it probably said to show Dignam. Dignam was already suspicious of Colin too
Here's my top unanswered question, which I seem to be the only person in the entire world asking; Who was the burning figure that staggered out of the truck after the explosion near the end of The Terminator? Reese shoves a bomb in the truck as it passes, the truck explodes, and Sarah watches a burning figure stagger out of the truck and collapse. You're meant to believe that this is the terminator, finally defeated, but there's evidence to the contrary. For starters, when it shows a closeup of the skull, it doesn't look like a machine. In fact, it looks hollow. Second, the body is lying on a bare patch of ground. Finally, when it's revealed that the terminator survived, it's shown rising up from a different location, UNDER some debris. At the point where the figure collapsed, the explosion was over, nothing else was moving or shifting, so if that was the terminator, how did it magically get covered with debris? Did Cameron just not care that this was a big continuity error, and think it was cooler to have it under debris, or was there supposed to be a third person in the truck, and that part of the plot got cut? I know there are no deleted scenes of anything like that. Plus, if there was another person in the truck, you'd think the guy who was told to "Get out." would have alerted them. So why does a burning figure collapse on bare ground and the terminator rise up from under debris in a different location?
Regarding _Catch Me If You Can_ it's not so surprising considering that the real life Frank also made up a lot of stuff about himself, and has been called out a few times.
What was the Rabbit's Foot in _Misson: Impossible 3_ ? As for Dignam, I would say he used his suspension to go rogue and conduct his own investigation which probably explains why he just executes Sullivan instead of arresting him since he's not in an official capacity to do so. Off course he could've passed on his findings but at that point knowing who to trust was hard.
You know you're wrong about catch me if he literally couldn't have in a genius studying law for 2 weeks straight could do it the man what's a genius don't hate on him
There are things we may never know, and these mysteries were left in to cause people to hold interest but in the long run, it's not really important because it was all fiction anyway, so it has no bearing on real life.
Regarding The Thing, it's confirmed canon that neither of them was The Thing. And more specifically Childs froze to death shortly after, but MacReady was rescued
Considering Soze was so into toying with the cop that he didn't even have a story, but just made one up on the fly, I like to think there was a core of truth to it, just details changed into what was on the board. I have no proof of this, but I think Soze would have kept enough truth in it to kinda dare the cop to figure it out, so he could really feel he outsmarted him. Just my take.
in the "loki" series, avengers tower can be seen in the background where people go when they are "pruned". "qang" can be seen on the tower, intimating that kang owned it at some point in some timeline.
Dignum had put everything in motion as Sullivan was a loose end; the deaths of Costello and the other cops including Costigan was a bonus as he choreographed the scuffle between him and Sullivan.
I didn't want Total Recall to all be a dream but face the facts: Quaid selects "secret agent" out of 4 choices and more telling, the girl: "brunette", "athletic", "sleazy... and demure"? And what better way to start off this spy-thriller dream vacation than a screw up right at the moment the dream is supposed to start? He got exactly what he paid for. Except now, how does he go back to his job? 😅
Keyser Soze was out to kill someone though it's unknown if the reason given is the real one. What gets me is that Soze FAILED and no one seem to realize it. There was a survivor from the ship that gave a description and Kujan had figured out he was manipulated. While Soze did escape, people know who he is and he will be arrested sooner or later. sm
The _Pulp Fiction_ briefcase was solved ages ago. It contains Marcellus’ soul. Tarantino originally was going to have it just be a large gemstone, but changed it as the story developed. There is no answer to who’s _The Thing._ I don’t care what Carpenter says, there are no definitive clues that tell you in the film’s ending. It was deliberately left open. He’s only claiming that there’s an answer now to generate interest in a possible sequel project. It’s the same as a definitive answer as to how the egg got on board the Sulaco in _Alien³._ Which so should have been on this list..
If you watch the one scene with Collie and Dignam, the briefing about the microprocessors, you see Collie talk about the guy that got killed. In that scene two things are clear, Sullivan knows South Boston and is trying to make himself look more impressive than other members of the team (talking more, asking better questions). That's where Dignam made him, then all of a sudden, Costigan is killed along with two other cops and Collie is clearly in the middle of it.
David's objective in Prometheus/Alien: Covenant is to be the creator of a form of life, just like humans made androids and "god"/engineers made humans.
I feel like I've heard groot was grown from a branch of Yggdrasil, not sure where i heard it from or if it's even canon, but it may be possible considering a lot of marvel characters are connected together somehow.
I've always had a different theory about how Dignam knew Sullivan was the rat. After Captain Queenan died Dignam is going nuclear at Sullivan. Dignam knew Sullivan had ordered that Queenan be followed by the Police. Which means he knew the Officers tailing Queenan were reporting information back to Sullivan. Dignam also knew Queenan was clean. Costello's crew showed up at the exact same place where Queenan was meeting Costigan, after Sullivan was informed of Queenan's location by the Officers following him. That's impossibly convenient to be a coincidence, and Dignam is portrayed as a capable and intelligent investigator. He knew that Sullivan was the rat then.
10:15 The Thing has been explained and even sequeled and even the ending is a callback to the beginning of the film. Pay attention, Carpenter doesn't spoon feed.
Here is what's on page 47 in National Treasure, the fact that Ben Franklin was working with the British during the Revolution. Nicolas Cage is related to Ben Franklin in the movie, motivating the revelation's poignance.
What was with the marker Winston gives John Wick at the end of the second movie? It's just never brought up again and John gets the marker for Sofia out of the library at the beginning of parabellum.
For the “departed” didn’t leos character work mark walbergs character as a undercover agent so I always just assumed leo sent him a copy of the tapes like he did for matt damiens characters gf character😅 does that make sense? Genuinely asking lol
The Avengers Tower is only a "sticking point" because people are impatient for a universe to pan out. As an East Coaster here in America, do you know how long we waited for the American Dream Mall to be a reality? (Look it up, lol)
To be a lawyer, you don't have to go to law school. You just have to pass the bar exam for that state. People do it all the time. Now, the two-week study session might have been an exaggeration, but geniuses pass the bar exam, without going to law school, all the time.
MacReady and Childs are both human. That's the true tragedy of it. They'll never trust each other, and will freeze to death having a stare-down instead of working together to try to survive.
legit he's basically like a borg/ hivemind collective and every time he makes a sprout or anything, its literally a potentially completely new fully formed groot, which is why he's also unkillable in a lot of ways
