Question: If Clarice Starling's a rookie FBI agent then why is she assigned to the Buffalo Bill case?
Rob245
4th Jul 2020
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Answer: Clarice is never assigned to the case, she is just working with Crawford as a trainee and under his supervision. Crawford wanted to obtain information from Lecter (he being a notorious serial killer) that might help capture the Buffalo Bill killer. Crawford knows from past experience that sending a seasoned FBI agent to interview Lecter will yield few results as Lecter is too brilliant a psychiatrist to be manipulated into helping. Crawford instead sends a trainee and chose Starling because she is young, attractive, unpretentious, and somewhat emotionally transparent and vulnerable. He gambles that Lecter will be disarmed and intrigued by someone different from the usual law enforcement type. Lecter is taken with Starling and they form a bond which prompts him to provide clues to Buffalo Bill's identity. Based on that, Crawford knows Clarice's relationship with Lecter will be a continued asset during the case.
3rd Jul 2020
Street Fighter (1994)
3rd Jul 2020
Monk (2002)
Mr. Monk and the Three Julies - S6-E13
Character mistake: When Monk's examining the second dead Julie, notice that Randy touches the body to point out a bruise. Surely real life cops would be wearing gloves so as not to contaminate part of the crime scene.
3rd Jul 2020
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
Question: Why does the Thin Man or whatever his name is kiss Drew Barrymore then take some of her hair?
Answer: He kisses Dylan because he is attracted to her and grabs her hair because that seems to be his particular fetish, as shown in the sequel as well.
3rd Jul 2020
The House Bunny (2008)
Continuity mistake: When Shelly goes to the snooty sorority she's wearing spiked white heels. Later on as she's doing yoga on the Zeta's front lawn she's suddenly wearing light brown platform shoes.
30th Jun 2020
Warm Bodies (2013)
Continuity mistake: Notice how Julie pumps her shotgun twice within a few seconds in the lab without once firing.
29th Jun 2020
The Good Place (2016)
Question: Why is it they never use the words "Heaven" and "Hell"?
Answer: While the show does explore life after death, the show creators intentionally avoided using many religious terms and beliefs, such as heaven, hell, or God. While one could draw parallels of the Good Place and the Bad Place to heaven and hell, in the show that's not what they're meant to be.
Thank you. It just means, to me, they're atheists.
Well you couldn't really call them atheist because atheists don't believe in any type of afterlife or any deities. The "good place" and "bad place" are merely broader terms that could include most belief systems.
Answer: They actually do use those terms, in one episode, when Eleanor starts crying Chidi states he broke God and, there is another episode where someone, I believe Chidi says, we're in heaven. Though not saying those words does not make them atheist, it is stated in the first episode that every religion specifically Christians were a little bit right... So when they got to the good place after learning it is really called the good place it makes no sense to call it something else.
29th Jun 2020
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
29th Jun 2020
Batman (1989)
Question: Given the Joker's been terrorizing the city and killing people why would anyone be stupid enough to show up for his parade regardless of money?
Answer: Well, given in 2020 there's a global pandemic with a highly contagious disease which is killing thousands, and some people are taking the suggestion / demand to wear a facemask as some sort of personal attack and gathering together to protest against the idea...don't ever underestimate the stupidity of some people. No doubt most of Gotham saw the parade as a dangerous/dreadful idea and stayed home, but there were plenty of idiots who couldn't see beyond their wallets.
Answer: Crime was running rampant in Gotham City and many business were shut down because of this. People were just barely scraping by and so when the Joker offered to drop money on the crowd for the festival, many people went into town out of desperation for some cash. Desperate people do desperate things.
29th Jun 2020
The Godfather (1972)
29th Jun 2020
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)
Question: If imprinting is possible for werewolves then why didn't Jacob do it to Bella? Mad Magazine pointed this out as he does this to her daughter, kind of creepy it was.
Answer: Imprinting is an involuntary mechanism. The shape-shifter can't voluntarily imprint on anybody. Jacob tried to imprint on Bella but was unable to do so and began going around looking for other girls to imprint on but, is unable to do it of his own free will.
29th Jun 2020
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
Question: Why does that vampire group slaughter whole tourist groups? Doesn't this put their secrecy at risk?
29th Jun 2020
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
Question: Why wasn't the vampire army made in a big city? Mad Magazine pointed this out, surely they'd be noticed making one in a small town?
25th Jun 2020
Faces in the Crowd (2011)
Other mistake: Anna's birthday is in January, making her an Aquarius or Capricorn. Yet she's shown looking up her horoscope under Taurus which is for April-May.
25th Jun 2020
Faces in the Crowd (2011)
Revealing mistake: When Anna's looking at her reflection in the mirror she starts rubbing her face vigorously. Look at her right cheek and you'll it's red before she rubs, result of multiple takes.
25th Jun 2020
Batman: The Animated Series (1992)
Character mistake: Despite being a Greek mythology buff Maxie Zeus says "Vulcan" when he meant "Hephaestus" the Greek god of fire and the forge when he first spoke with Batman.
22nd Jun 2020
Batman: The Animated Series (1992)
Plot hole: It's never explained: 1. How or who helped Scarecrow escape from his cell or 2. Why he'd be sitting in there at the end in costume instead of prison garb.
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Suggested correction: Something not being explained is not a plot hole. The manner in which Scarecrow escaped his cell isn't essential to the plot, and therefore doesn't require an explanation. And the reason he's left in the cell in his costume is for the same reason Batman was left wearing his outfit when he was imprisoned: because the doctor at the asylum felt removing his outfit in his hallucinatory state could cause him to become catatonic.
21st Jun 2020
Sex and the City (1998)
Question: So was Kim Cattrall ever serious about Sonia Braga or was it just a fling for her?
21st Jun 2020
Tales from the Crypt (1989)
Beauty Rest - S4-E5
Revealing mistake: Kathy Ireland is supposed to be dead but watch carefully and you'll see her chest move when Minnie Driver's doing CPR.
15th Jun 2020
Wonder Woman (1976)
Question: How is it Steve never seemed to notice Diana's absences when she's her alter ego?
Answer: There is no logical reason. Any normal person would notice these type of absences. The show employs a "suspension of disbelief," which is a literary device where the movie audience or a book reader accepts that certain things are unreal for the sake of the story to be told. It is similar to no-one noticing that Clark Kent looks exactly like Superman because he wears glasses.
Answer: Thank you.
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Answer: She's only "assigned" to the case after Jack Crawford sends her to interview Hannibal Lecter; she goes thinking it's just a training exercise, though he (Crawford) really wants to see if Lecter spills anything about Buffalo Bill. When Lecter does reveal "Miss Hester Mofet" to Clarice, she follows the lead and discovers it is linked to the Buffalo Bill case, so at this point it's only natural that she would continue to work on it. Plus, Crawford has seen her potential and is her mentor/champion, so he's happy to bring her onboard...though, of course, she starts off still as an apprentice rather than a field agent, and no-one has any idea how deep she will get with Lecter or that she will be the one who apprehends Bill herself.