Why was noone else on Viktor's flight held up?
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Jenocalypse — 13 years ago(November 23, 2012 04:44 PM)
Dixon forgets about Viktor a few times at the beginning. One time he's baffled that Viktor is still in the airport and another he has a WTF moment when he sees someone walking through the terminal wearing a bathrobe.
Only after realizing Viktor won't leave because he was told to wait does he start paying attention and trying to get rid of him.
Viktor could have left, gotten his autograph, came back, and waited for his return flight to Krakozhia. -
jajceboy — 13 years ago(November 30, 2012 03:33 PM)
I've never ever realized that Viktor was the only one from Krakhozia. It just slipped my mind:)
How strange to be the only one in a plan. What happened to the rest? How small is Krakhozia if no one wants to fly there or from there?
And if there were more, did they just go to NYC?
Bizarre indeed! -
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marbleann — 13 years ago(February 21, 2013 08:31 AM)
That was the biggest plot hole in the whole movie. They could of flew a 747 right through it. Their is no way a big International Airport would only have one person flying out or in of there anyway. There would be a feeder flights and they would all converge in a big airport. There are people working in these airports that take care of specific things like this. I use to work in the IAB in JFK. He would of been taken to a area with not only people leaving from his country but going to his country, along with anybody else who had to fly through the airport there. He would taken by the Red Cross or some other entity that is assigned to handle people in middle of a international crisis. They would never leave him in the middle of a big airport to fend for himself.
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dg-benz — 13 years ago(February 26, 2013 11:20 PM)
It is possible that he was the only one at that time, on that flight. The country was on the brink of a civil war, and even though Viktor left before it actually broke out, I doubt that people from Krakozhia were lining up to go to NYC in the midst of oncoming war. Having said that, Viktor most likely transferred in a major airpirt hub somewhere in Europe (Frankfurt, Paris, London, etc) because most likely a small country like Krakozhia wouldn't offer direct flights to America and was probably the only one from his country to board the flight to NYC once he had transferred.
It seems strange when you first think about it, but it is possible and I wouldn't necessarily call it a plot hole. -
marbleann — 13 years ago(February 27, 2013 07:14 AM)
If it was on the brink of Civil War all the more reason for people to be leaving. No matter what country they would have representation waiting for them at a major airport. Not only that the Red Cross is there too. And I had mentioned they probably came in from feeder airports to NY. Working in IAB at JFK years ago I just do not think Victor situation would happen. He is considered a refugee, no way would he be left hanging at a airport.
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TVholic — 10 years ago(November 26, 2015 09:57 PM)
It wasn't a civil war. It was a coup d'etat, a sudden overthrow of the government that comes without warning. Go read up on the term in Wikipedia and you'll see coups and attempted coups in quite a few countries you think are stable democracies, countries people aren't fleeing. There can't be representation if the old government is out of power and the new government isn't recognized by the US. You don't think something like that can happen? Look up the story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri.
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joestl — 10 years ago(January 02, 2016 04:22 PM)
Chance are you couldn't get a direct flight from Krakohzia all the way to NYC. So he probably flew from Krakohzia to a connecting flight in some place like London, Paris or wherever which would've then flown to New York. He's the only Krakohzian citizen who continued on to America while the others either only went to the first city or their subsequent connecting flights weren't to NY.
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itstoohardtoreadmyname — 13 years ago(March 28, 2013 12:41 AM)
Why do you find it so impossible for Viktor to be the only Krakozhian guy in his flight? Maybe he took a connecting flight to the USA from let's say Germany? So maybe all of the other Krakozhians stayed in Germany, while Viktor wanted to go to the US. It's a possible scenario, because Krakozhia was a small country and there shouldn't have necessarily been other pasangers.