What exactly are those 'football ticket stumps' that the father shows?
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HowYaLikeDemApplesWill — 14 years ago(October 13, 2011 07:57 AM)
He explained all of thatdid you watch the movie?
When being questioned by Dustin Hoffman about his claim that he was at the Knicks game with Tommy and John, Hoffman asked him if he had any proof that he had gone to the game: a credit card receipt, etc..
DeNiro replied he remembered that the Celtics beat the Knicks, and no proof, that he always paid cash.
He then was asked if he was just trying to cover for the boys that he loved and knew growing up, and if he had any proof at
all
that he and the boys were at the game.
He replied that he wasn't used to having his word questioned as a priest. It was at this point, he whips out the three ticket stubs.
Then when asked: isn't it kind of strange that he would have saved
all
of the tickets stubs, including those of the two boys, his reply was NO, that he made it a habit of saving the stubs from all of the games he attended.
That coupled with the fact he was a priest, gave him credibility in the jury's eyes, that was almost irrefutable. -
dab6 — 14 years ago(October 31, 2011 03:22 PM)
Right, it's not absolute proof, but they just needed a credible witness to give the boys an alibi. They had already made Nokes seem like an unsympathetic victim to the jury, who was a child molester and therefore could have been killed by anyone.
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rosarypliers — 13 years ago(October 02, 2012 09:12 AM)
Mooreiswar, that's what my grandfather said back then.Of course, the two could have said they just don't remember, they don't care about basketball, and they just went because Father Bobby had bought the tickets, and they didn't want to embarass him.
But I think it was all a question of psychology. Brad Pitt directed the attention of the jury away from the fact that ticket stubs don't really count as evidence. Father Bobby could have been to the game with two other people or gotten the tickets by other means. He pretended to corner Father Bobby with the fact that he didn't have any proof that he purchased the ticketsbut then Father Bobby shows them, and admit it, you were impressed when you saw the movie for the first time. And unlike the jury, we knew that the whole thing was a scam. -
tecmosuperbowler — 13 years ago(March 11, 2013 02:42 AM)
Something that always bothered me about this was that if I had been on that jury, I certainly would have wondered what was up with Brad Pitt not saying something at the very least like "you could have gone with any other two people" or something like that.
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Quboid — 12 years ago(April 25, 2013 01:31 PM)
I think Brad Pitt is too shocked by the stubs' appearance - his case, damaged by the disastrous character witness, had been destroyed just as he was twisting the knife in De Niro. He's visibly stunned and I think at that point, he realises that the defendants he had always assumed were guilty are actually innocent.
(At least, this is how it appears to the jury!) -
jejozi — 13 years ago(February 27, 2013 07:49 PM)
You weren't paying attention, were you? First, they were basketball stubs. He just perjured himself saying he, a priest, John and Tommy were at the Knicks game at the time the murders were committed, thus giving them the alibi that got them acquitted.
This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here. -
showtime321 — 12 years ago(April 16, 2013 02:23 PM)
I'm surprised no one noticed that he got the tickets from the fat shop owner, he was given an envelope (the ticket stubs) along with the cigarettes and change from the store. He probably did not even go to the game.