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Why the models were being killed

posted 11 years ago by city5705boy
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I've randomly seen complaints on here about the editing, and why the models were being killed. Someone kinda hit on it, and I apologize if this is overkill, but to me I figured it out, when Susan Dey went to Matrix, and they were scanning her, the assistant, that was prepping her for the scan, told her, that this is all she needed to do, and would be paid 200,000 a year, for virtually doing nothing after that point. So to me, they had the surgery so they'd be perfect for the computer needs, own their image for whatever they wanted, promise them almost any kind of money, that they had no intention of paying off on, so they killed them. To put it simply, they didn't need them anymore, had no intention of paying, and didn't want them around to see what they used their image for. The girls wouldn't have been able to go to another commercial agency, because they owned the rights, and it also would've exposed what they were doing, and the mind control.

Like another poster said, they didn't feel they had to explain all of that for the ignorant viewer,

[–] HapHazzard 11 years ago

It wasn't that at all, but it's a good explanation if you haven't seen the missing scenes. It was actually because the looker gun was going to be used for rigging an election, and the girls had some knowledge of it from being involved with the men concerned so they needed to be eliminated.

Give me a hedgehog and I'll show you.

[–] gwenhazelstone 11 years ago

You're close. I just watched the scene (found it on YouTube). They were killed for this reason only: to quote James Coburn's character as he spoke to Finney's and Dey's characters, he said, "The three dead girls and Cynthia here were walking examples of our computer research. They were the measurements, the database, and it’s corporate policy to shred all old documents to keep it out of the hands of competition."

[–] philoj 9 years ago

Wow - I never knew that. I always thought it was as the OP said - that they were promised an annual salary, but after the scans they weren't needed, so the company got rid of them.

I'm glad they cut that scene, because that's pretty bad writing.

[–] HarveyManfredSinJohn 10 years ago

Wouldn't people ask who the (scanned) models were, and look into their background? I can't imagine a film like this working today because internet users would do research and discover these women were dead before their various commercials had screened, or even been filmed.