'Diplomatic Immunity!!!'
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R011DaveAAA — 14 years ago(July 27, 2011 11:57 PM)
It makes perfect sense, as in the context of this film, diplomatic immunity means that a diplomat can do whatever he likes without consequences. In real life, that isnt the case and they'd have been in jail either in the US or South Africa before the movie started.
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bv-j — 14 years ago(August 14, 2011 03:31 PM)
No it doesn't. Diplomatic immunity doesn't let you operate with impunity. In real life, the U.S. would have had them expelled in the very beginning. Otherwise yes they would have been prosecuted in the U.S. or South Africa.
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actionmanrandell — 10 years ago(September 14, 2015 05:57 PM)
there are varying levels of immunity, a diplomat with the immunity level of the main guy would in fact be able to commit any crime he wanted with out being able to be arrested the only way the u.s would be able to arrest him with out violating a treaty is if his home nation revoked his immunity if not the only thing the state department could do is proclaim persona non grata and kick him out of the u.s
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herbsuperb — 14 years ago(September 14, 2011 02:19 PM)
I think my favorite line of the whole series is
"My dear police officer.you could not even give me a parking ticket."
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herbsuperb — 14 years ago(October 26, 2011 05:18 PM)
I think he said "De-Kaffirnated". A play on the term "Kaffir" which is a racial slur often used in South Africa. At least that's what I've always heard during that scene, I don't know for sure. Rudd and his men use it a couple of times during the film.
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ThingyBlahBlah3 — 13 years ago(October 25, 2012 06:44 PM)
This thread kind of makes me wish that LW3 had dealt with the aftermath of LW2, where the South African government is super-pissed about the LAPD killing off their guys, and what happens after the revelation that their ambassador was a ridiculously large-scale drug lord.
'It's a mess, ain't it, sheriff?'
'If it ain't, it'll do till the mess gets here.' -
Retrovenger — 12 years ago(April 21, 2013 03:52 AM)
He might as well have said "No tag backs". As hard to follow as the plot was, the guy shot at police men, blew them up, transported drug money (which btw when he saw falling into the ocean I think Kevin Costner expressed more emotion in Water World when he saw the wreckage of his boat) and who knows what else and expected to get away with it.Ahh the 80s and their loosely tied together plots. I'm not complaining, really, hell I laugh my ass off at the 'mobile phone' from the first movie; I still think it's a fun movie but man what was the movie viewing crowd like back then?
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trekkie313 — 12 years ago(June 18, 2013 05:13 PM)
I take it the events of the movie happened within a few days or even a week and there wasn't much time or evidence for the Feds or LAPD to get a full grasp on what was going down. Plus the U.S. government at the time was preoccupied with Communism and the drugs wars in Miami/South America.
The Feds knew money laundering was involved when Leo turned himself over as a witness, he never got to testify as to what he was involved in or who his clients were. Riggs and Murtaugh got lucky by being assigned to protect Leo, and the bad guys stupidly invaded Murtaughs house which gave away their accents.
An overweight Colombian bitch in Miami ran one of the largest cocaine smuggling rackets and hit squads for 10 years unnoticed. A Dutch a-hole with credentials isn't that much of a stretch to get by unnoticed.