Why didn't Bryan Mills rescue Amanda?
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SpaceMountainMike — 13 years ago(September 18, 2012 07:16 PM)
He went through all that trouble to rescue Kim, why didn't he find Amanda while he was at it? Also, there was one place that had girls drugged up and tied to beds. Why didn't he at least untie them?
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svnelvn — 13 years ago(September 26, 2012 12:35 AM)
rescuing Amanda wasn't part of his mission
it was to rescue Kim and given the time frame he wasn't going to waste any time on anything else
In military it's very important to stick with the objective and it alone -
thisnameinuse — 12 years ago(July 07, 2013 07:48 PM)
There's also the factor of screenwriters not closing up every single possible open end. I didn't need to actually SEE him calling the authorities, or telling his French contact where the body was and where that hole was that he found her.
I figured he did it anyway, but did it off-screen.
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dontshootthemessengernl — 12 years ago(July 19, 2013 02:45 AM)
The thing is with movies it is always the least popular character that gets killed. It is an american movie, so Amanda is more promiscuous, it's a little bit like she sleeps around anyway, so she is bad, she gets killed. The happy ending was distasteful as if everything was good at the end. Her best friend is still dead. But they wanted probably a hollywood ending, very distasteful.
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uruseiranma — 13 years ago(October 11, 2012 10:41 AM)
Yeah, this isn't 'Temple of Doom' with Indy planning to free all these children.
Bryan isn't out to be a crusader for young women, he's just there to carry out his plan.
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ehaas-3 — 13 years ago(October 17, 2012 04:31 AM)
I'm sure he would have rescued Amanda had she been alive, if only because she might have been a more useful informant than the girl with the jacket and becasue she spoke better English and was drugged and abused for a much shorter time period.
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Gus-69 — 13 years ago(October 24, 2012 08:25 PM)
Try paying attention to the movie before posting these clueless threads.
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pv71989-1 — 13 years ago(November 06, 2012 10:41 PM)
That's one of the few problems I had with the movie. It appears that Bryan leaves the other women to their fate in the brothel. Maybe the cops eventually show up, but it would have been nice for Bryan to make an anonymous call to the cops.
And it would have been nice for his daughter to have had some reaction to her friend Amanda dying.
Maybe those parts were filmed and left on the cutting room floor. Maybe Besson wanted the audience to believe Bryan was a tough parent willing to make the hard decision to let the other women die to complete his mission and save the daughter he love. Who knows? -
timmy_321235 — 13 years ago(January 05, 2013 07:47 PM)
"That's one of the few problems I had with the movie. It appears that Bryan leaves the other women to their fate in the brothel. Maybe the cops eventually show up, but it would have been nice for Bryan to make an anonymous call to the cops."
Call the cops? The same cops that were being paid off by Albanians? Great idea.