Uh, did they forget something?
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Beauq81 — 11 years ago(August 04, 2014 03:33 PM)
Some, but less than in the book. The filmmakers complicated it a bit to sound flashier, with a bit of conspiracy theory. In the book, the Zec and his gang own a quarry and the killed couple owned the competing quarry. No international conspiracy, just a local dispute.
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transmentalist — 10 years ago(September 23, 2015 03:12 PM)
No international conspiracy, just a local dispute
Hmn, but "local dispute" doesn't sound big enough (in my opinion) to justify the whole scheme (setting up Barr, killing four innocents, having meth-dealer thugs on call, etc.).
That much effort, I'd expect a bigger conspiracy to justify it - Zec & Charlie going state to state, making a killing financially & sometimes literally, that's big enough to justify this elaborate a scheme
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Beauq81 — 10 years ago(September 30, 2015 04:02 AM)
In the book, Zec's company keeps winning city construction contracts by bribing city officials. The woman they killed in the shooting and her husband owned a competing company and when they suddenly stopped getting work and saw only one company was getting all of it, they started asking questions and got themselves killed.
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TheBeardedWonder — 11 years ago(October 10, 2014 08:37 PM)
Yeah that's what I thought too. I got it, it just wasn't that well done nor did it make much sense as a whole. There's quicker, easier, and less messy (ie: less of a trail) ways for the mob to make money.
Anyone remember the simpsons episode where the mob gets hired to build the school and everything is built with tape and posicle sticks and it falls down right away while they take off with the money? It's literally been a plot device in a comedic TV show, not sure how someone thought it would work as a serious thriller