Limo scene
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Final Countdown
gtmail77 — 10 years ago(October 27, 2015 01:24 PM)
Spoiler alert
So in the end, we see the stranded couple pull up in a limo, implying that they're rich and/ or powerful. How did their experience change their futures so they could get rich? Maybe it's all speculation, since I dont recall them ever saying anything specific like we bought IBM as a startup or bet big on the Jets to win Super Bowl 3. Thoughts? -
CGSailor — 10 years ago(October 27, 2015 01:54 PM)
It is extremely obvious without needing details and specifics.
Cdr Owens knows the History of the next 40 years and thus is perfectly able to place himself in positions to gain money.
Buying early initial stock in IBM and Apple for example.
Any and everything from betting on famous Sports events, to knowing which companies are going to hit it big and which not to invest in.
We don't need the details. Just that it is a perfectly reasonable assumption.
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alexracer — 10 years ago(November 22, 2015 04:42 AM)
indeed
he can buy shares early in companies like MATTEL, IBM etc which are worth millions in years to come
NOTE Mattel was founded in 1945 so shares would have been very cheap to get for him
he would know NOT to buy stock in companies like Packard , Studabecker etc cos they will go bankrupt in the 50s , he would know that companies like Ford, GM had a future and that he shall sell car shares before the 1973 Oil crisis
he would also know about Korean and Vietnam wars and that arms companies would make big money
and as mentioned he would know of major sports events , guaranteed winning at bets -
TVholic — 10 years ago(November 26, 2015 06:32 PM)
Don't forget that they explicitly said Tideman "helped design this ship." Tideman Industries is a major military contractor in that universe, important enough that the Navy delayed the departure of the Nimitz just because he asked them to. He knew which naval contracts would be approved in terms of ships, planes and weapons systems. He knew jets and nuclear reactors were the wave of the future.
And don't forget Owen was a history buff. He knew a lot of things that could come in useful. He knew which politicians would ascend to the heights of elected office, thus whose campaigns to contribute to and gain influence with. Maybe he even helped them along to where they ended up, the way he helped design the Nimitz. Just a little whisper in the right ears with information he already knew from history, but which would make powerful people in the past think he has a remarkable vision of the future and is someone to be listened to. He could have told Nixon after failing to become governor of California in 1962 that he was destined for greater things, to become PotUS if he just remains patient. Appearing to be an unshakable supporter of someone when he's down when you know with 100% certainty that his circumstances will change is a great way to amass influence. Face it, with that kind of unalterable foreknowledge, one smart man could easily become the most powerful person in the world. Combine that with Laurel being extremely knowledgeable of what happens behind the scenes of Washington's corridors of power in the 1940s and it's little wonder they became rich and powerful. -
alexracer — 10 years ago(November 30, 2015 02:27 PM)
the only problem he would have back in 1941 is to quickly discard his future uniform and somehow gain an identity as he never existed in any records there, the big problem for him is he can't show any ID papers he would be arrested and possibly executed as a SPY !!
he could try to assume the identity of the dead crewman killed in japanese boat attack and explain that he lost all his papers on the exploding boat but then he would somehow need to AVOID everyone who knew him like the plague AND hope the NAVY wouldn't try to confirm his claims
of course he may get lucky since everyone is busy with the attacc but on the other hand the military would be much much vigilente regarding spies after that so dunno how he may have handled that -
CGSailor — 10 years ago(December 01, 2015 04:34 PM)
the big problem for him is he can't show any ID papers he would be arrested and possibly executed as a SPY !!
The United States is not the Soviet Union. Your idea is far fetched to say the least.
Remember, the United States is still just coming out of the Great Depression, millions of men are in the US without "papers".
It would be relatively easy to come up with a fake backstory. Remember, no internet or national databank service of records. Everything was on Paper back then and a lot can get lost and/or misplaced.
he could try to assume the identity of the dead crewman killed in japanese boat attack and explain that he lost all his papers on the exploding boat but then he would somehow need to AVOID everyone who knew him like the plague AND hope the NAVY wouldn't try to confirm his claims
Again no.
All the crew from the Senator's Yacht including Laurel were presumed dead following the attack, there were no reported survivors, so no he could not have taken the dead crewman's identity.
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alexracer — 10 years ago(December 02, 2015 11:07 AM)
the US did executed spies/ saboteurs in WW2
here for example nazi spies captured in 1942 and executed in 1944
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/german-saboteurs-executed-in-washington
and why not Scott simply says who she is claim that she in the dead crewman (Cdr. Richard Owens) are the only survivors of the yacht
or you say it was so easy for Owens to just claim a fake name, fake birth date and home town and that would have been enough to have ID papers issued without anyone checking his claims ? -
CGSailor — 10 years ago(December 02, 2015 01:05 PM)
the US did executed spies/ saboteurs in WW2
Either "The US
executed
spies"
Or "the US
did execute
spies"
"did executed" is bad English.
But I am not here to be a grammar nazi, on to the point:
I never made a claim they didn't. Of course we executes spies and saboteurs.
But that was not the point being made by you nor argued against by me.
The point made by you was that they would execute him as a spy saboteur simply for not having proper credentials (papers). That is utter bullsh!t. There were tens of thousands of Americans in the US that for whatever reasons, did not have documented evidence proving who they are. Again, the US was not acting like the Soviet Union, where you could and did end up getting executed as a spy simply because you could not prove you weren't.
here for example nazi spies captured in 1942 and executed in 1944
And that is
the ONLY
example of German Spies/Saboteurs caught and executed on US Soil. And again in direct refutation of your claim They were executed as spies/saboteurs not because of a simple "lack of papers" but because their own fellow German accomplices went to the US Authorities and turned them all in.
and why not Scott simply says who she is claim that she in the dead crewman (Cdr. Richard Owens) are the only survivors of the yacht
and why not
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Scott simply says who she is claim that she in the dead crewman (Cdr. Richard Owens) are the only survivors of the yacht.
That question mark is important to someone trying to read your response, to keep from mentally tripping when trying to read your words.
Why Not?
BECAUSE HISTORY RECORDED THAT THERE WERE NO SURVIVORS!
And there was no alteration of history or the timeline in this film.
If Laurel reported who she was, and Owens then claimed to be the crewman then History would have reflected that there were two survivors.
It. Did. Not.
Now Are you done?
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alexracer — 10 years ago(December 02, 2015 01:19 PM)
so t how would they gain (new) ID papers ?
without ID papers you can't even register a car, let alone build up a (legal) financial empire.
Owens would have another little problem , he would need to hop that for 20 years or so nobody finds the wreck of the helicopter -
CGSailor — 10 years ago(December 03, 2015 02:52 AM)
so t how would they gain (new) ID papers ?
without ID papers you can't even register a car, let alone build up a (legal) financial empire.
I personally don't know the exact steps to forge a fake identity.
But just because I don't know does not mean it cannot be done. It happens all the damned time. You are arguing a bullsh!t and demonstrably false point.
Owens would have another little problem , he would need to hop that for 20 years or so nobody finds the wreck of the helicopter
This film is from a Single timeline version of the universe, not alternative multidimensional timelines.
The wreckage wasn't found so it won't be found.
Irrelevant point.
Are you done NOW?
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TVholic — 10 years ago(December 04, 2015 09:18 PM)
What are these "ID papers" you keep referring to? Do you know anyone who carries their birth certificate or passport around all the time? Social Security had barely started a few years before 1941 and there were initial problems registering everyone in the country, so a Social Security card isn't it. Lots of people never get driver's licenses because they don't drive. You know in 1941, there weren't computerized databases, so checking and cross-checking information was a very laborious process. It would have been fairly easy to assume somebody's identity. Not to mention photo ID basically didn't exist at the time. You think identity theft is difficult because you're judging from the 21st century.
Seriously, you don't know the first thing about what you're arguing.
As for the helo, who would know what it was if they found the bits and pieces of it anyway? It would have been just wreckage from some kind of vehicle. Forensic wreckage analysis wasn't common in the 1940s, especially in wartime. Do you think somebody would take a tremendous leap of faith and think, "Wow, this must be from the future"? At worst, they might think it's from some kind of Japanese minisub. -
alexracer — 10 years ago(December 06, 2015 06:39 AM)
I am talking about one of this, this one from 1940 with photo
http://www.danielabraham.net/images/tree/katz_toni_britishidcard.jpg
or even older ones , they did have photos even before 1940
http://quanonline.com/military/military_reference/american/wwii_equipment/photos/haddock_id.jpg
a wrecked helicopter potentially with US NAVY markings and serial numbers might easy attract attention , unless of course Ownes made sure later to send a crew and quietly dispose of it -
TVholic — 10 years ago(December 06, 2015 09:25 AM)
You're really desperate, aren't you? Here's a little tidbit for you: the UK passed an act of Parliament to create those cards because they were at war, and even then, you could almost certainly find people in remote villages and rural areas who wouldn't have the ID. The US was not at war in 1941 and to this day has no national ID card, unless you count passports.
Why do you persist on pointing to military ID? Not every man in the US was in the military. Are you saying every civilian male would have been arrested and executed? Assuming Owen was the same age as Farentino, he would have been too old to register for the draft before the beginning of the war, and by the time they started drafting men his age, they were so short of manpower that every able-bodied man would be accepted. Draft cards didn't have photos, either. Or even got officially stamped. Anybody could steal one and fill it out. Driver's licenses and other civilian ID generally didn't have photos back then. And both of your "photo" IDs had exposed photos glued onto them. Do you have any idea how easy it would be to steal IDs then remove and replace the photos with their own? It's not like more recent IDs with photos laminated under plastic or current IDs with photos directly printed. Teenagers have been making fake IDs to get into bars since the end of Prohibition. It wouldn't be a surprise if Owen used one when he was in college.
Navy markings in 1941 were quite different from 1980 markings. Among other things, where's the red bar? If someone found them, they would chalk them off as poorly researched fake markings on a Japanese vehicle. Again, nobody is going to leap to the conclusion that the machine is from the future.
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alexracer — 10 years ago(December 06, 2015 11:07 AM)
you forgot about the stamp part on the photos
and you really forget that Owens if he became this powerful businessman with political influence would need to make sure his papers and BACKGROUND STORY are alright because this activities attract attention of political foes and their private detectives that try to find something to discredit/blackmail him with , this is how things work
also the current NAVY marking was introduced in 1947 so if that wreck was found after 47 it would have standard Navy markings , you can never discount that somebody like fishers find it as it crashed near an island, not into some really deep abyss
http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/naval-aviation-history/aircraft-markings.html -
dubyahsrobotminion — 10 years ago(December 06, 2015 03:24 PM)
Your research is half-baked on 'Markings'. The Star and Bar become standard in 1947. Not all markings. None of it matters because the Helo not only had non-1941 star and bar insignia, it also had USS Nimitz markings, CVW-8 markings and a bureau no. that would not be on record until the 60s if not 70s depending on when that Helo was made. Having said that the Star and Bar still has been around in multiple incarnations. Normal, Lo-vis, Hi-vis, centennial and many others.
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Cairo-5 — 10 years ago(December 02, 2015 07:28 PM)
Something just occurred to me while reading your post.
The movie actually establishes that there were no known survivors of the civilian boat Chapman and the others were on.
In writing his history of the Pacific war Owens mentions the disappearance and presumption of death of Sen. Chapman at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. Later, after Chapman has been rescued and taken to the Nimitz, Lasky who has read that passage throws it back at Owens because of his belief that history can't be changed.
Owens had to be reporting the accepted historical conclusion that what happened to Chapman was unknown. He mysteriously disappeared.
BUT: There wouldn't have been any mystery or any presumptions at all if someone from the boat was known to have survived. That person would have certainly been questioned, especially since you just don't ignore the disappearance of a very important Senator.
So a known survivor would have told what happened. And it wouldn't have made any difference if he told the truth or lied. Either way there would be something in the historical record as to Chapman's fate. Something that Owens would have repeated in his manuscript.
It's easier to be an individual than a god.
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CGSailor — 10 years ago(December 03, 2015 02:59 AM)
Exactly.
Had an actual survivor came forward (Laurel) or even someone taking the identity of someone from the boat (As suggested Owens could have done) then the history of the film would have been recorded differently.
But history recorded that Senator Chapman's Yacht disappeared without a trace with all hands during the time of the attack and was presumed destroyed during the attack.
It would not have been "presumed destroyed" if a survivor came for and "reported it destroyed".
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davidjanuzbrown — 9 years ago(November 07, 2016 09:35 PM)
it is important to note that because of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, everything is in utter kaos, so hiding in plain sight was easy ( unless you were Japanese of course). It was necessary for not only Owens to do so, but Laurel because if she was known to survive, the questions about the disappearance of such a well known Senator as Chapman would have happened. Laurel was ahead of her time and because of her knowledge of the System probably had little difficulty in securing false documents like a birth certificate and drivers license for herself and Owens. The key to Owens success was Laurel who really understood the way things workedwt. Especially when it came to Congress and Defense Contracts, For Laurel she had someone in Owens who respected her.
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SealedCargo — 6 years ago(September 25, 2019 11:19 AM)
he had Biff Tannan's Almanac
The Fearmakers Blog
https://thefearmakers.blogspot.com/
