What if Stempel had just said 'Marty!'
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d_henderson1810 — 11 years ago(June 20, 2014 10:13 PM)
what really would have happened if Stempel had just said "Marty" as the answer to the question. What could they really do to him?
This isn't the mafia we are talking about here. Sure, he may not have a future in television, but a lot of people don't have a future in TV, but we still live our lives.
If Stempel had just refused to say "On The Waterfront", the whole plan would have fallen apart. -
Hoffman31 — 11 years ago(August 01, 2014 08:44 PM)
From his perspective, he had nothing to gain from answering correctly. If he betrays them, they would have found a way to get him off the show short after (stop feeding him answers). Therefore, he knew that his only shot at a possible future was to play ball.
Ultimately, all of the promises they made him were false, so he was damned if he did, damned if he didn't. -
snelling — 10 years ago(September 12, 2015 01:56 PM)
I think they should have just stopped cheating and ultimately let him lose on a hard question; one he actually did not know. That's just in real life, though. I think the film is great drama the way it is.
"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley -
cowgoesmoo — 9 years ago(May 16, 2016 05:28 AM)
In one of the flashback episodes, one of the former contestants did exactly that: gave the right answer when he was supposed to give a wrong one. Jack Barry does a double take as he start to say "Oh sorry" and then realizes he gave the right answer.
As other posters mentioned, if someone was uncooperative, they would either have stop feeding answers or else slipped in a totally new question. -
tolarrattler-imdb — 9 years ago(January 03, 2017 08:32 AM)
He would have won about another $10,000 and the next time he was on he would not be given the answers and his opponent would be fulled fed every answer. His questions would probably be more tricky and aimed at places the producers felt confident he was not as knowledgeable in. He would lose and be completely out. He was hoping for that panel show and money coming in from that (although it would never match what he was making on the game show). I guess he also just wanted to stay on TV. Giving the wrong answer seemed like the only shot he had at that.