<![CDATA[Why did Leonard hold the critics' exhibition for Walter?]]>Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — A Bucket of Blood

mlraymond — 16 years ago(May 01, 2009 06:25 PM)

Leonard is on the verge of calling the police at one point, until a customer offers a huge price for one of Walter's statues. At several points, he tries to convince Walter not to make any more statues, says he's beginning to feel responsible, and finally denounces Maxwell's poetry as a corrupting influence on the simple-minded Walter.
My question is did Leonard deliberately hold the art show for Walter, in hopes that the statues would begin to melt/break down, and Walter would be exposed as a killer? In fairly rapid succession, Carla discovers the body of Alice, a detective finds the missing undercover agent Lou, and a woman screams at the so-called bust of a beheaded man.
Could Leonard have hoped this would happen,so Walter would be stopped for good, without anyone suspecting Leonard's knowledge of the crimes?
And when he crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him

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I think he had a bit of a conscience about it, looked visibly ill every time he saw a new creation, but the money was too big a temptation.
He wanted to have the showing ASAP to get as much cash as he could out of what Walter already did then he was going to give him the boot. This way, if Walter continued his killing ways he could distance himself from him.
No, he wasn't a good man but knew it could not go on. money or not.

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I think the only real reason Leonard held the show for Walter was greed, pure and simple.
There was a point in the film where he was trying to convince Paisley to try "free-form" or another medium, but since he refused, Leonard (also being a conniver and a coward) basically let him make statues so that he could hastily unload them onto people; I'm relatively sure he didn't care that Paisley was killing so long as he made a "killing."

"You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle."P.I. & "oily gent" Jack Fisher

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