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How much did the townspeople know?

posted 8 years ago by wesperkins
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Do you think the entire town was in on the entirety of the plan? Obviously they were in on some of it, and wanted to protect the factory. But would everyone be cool if they knew the ultimate goal was to kill millions of kids and adults? And a day or two later knowing the army would come in and level the town and probably kill them all? I think they thought Cochran was the towns savior and respected him and feared him. They probably knew something was odd about it, but they were not allowed in the final processing area where all the witchcraft stuff was going on. I just don't think they knew everything. Well not all of them anyway.

[–] 8 years ago

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[–] euro4569 8 years ago

I got the impression that most of them (if not all) knew exactly what the ultimate goal was, otherwise, they would have made a big deal about all of the security cameras going up. This makes me believe that these were the people that followed Cochran from the 'outside'.

[–] wesperkins 8 years ago

Man what if Kevin Bacon had moved to this town instead of the town in Footloose? What a movie that would be!

[–] Tank-McQuade 8 years ago

But the townsfolk of Santa Mira would more than likely put a pitchfork thru Kevins face

[–] manram24 8 years ago

I don't think they knew, but they knew enough to keep their noses out of it. They were probably too scared to do anything and minded their own business.

[–] YippeeKiYay_MF 8 years ago

I have a fantasy in which during the last part of the movie, after Chalis escapes the factory with fembot Ellie, they both run through the Santa Mira town, and the townspeople just stand outside their houses staring at them.
Robot-like.

But yeah, I think most of them were in on it. Probably just except Starker.

I'll be good I swear... I'll never see a movie ever again.

[–] wesperkins 8 years ago

But do you think they were full in on it? I think they were in on it too but idk if they all knew Cochran wanted to kill all the kids in the world and thereby having their town wiped out by the army or whoever pretty soon after. And there didn't seem to be enough houses around the town to me while I am thinking about it.

Orrrrr.. could the townspeople have been robots? I don't think so bc they didn't act like it and there would be no need for cameras and curfew. But it just crossed my mind and I am thinking out loud.

[–] dave626 8 years ago

I doubt they were in on it. That makes absolutely no sense. They kept to themselves and did as they were told. Quiet community, under lock and key. You saw what happened to Starker if anyone spoke out. If they were in on it, they'd have joined the hunt for Dan along with the robots. They didn't.

"He came home." - Dr. Sam Loomis from the original HalloweeN

[–] pop-actor 8 years ago

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[–] sneezer (166) 6 years ago

One of the townspeople, an old man, asked Cockran in a low voice "What happened" after Cockran and his androids showed up to take Marge Guttman away after the little electronic thingamajig misfired, causing bugs to crawl out of her maw. Yes, the townspeople knew the sinister goings on at the mask plant.

[–] bobbydallas (8556) 4 years ago

i also assume the majority of townsfolk were in the "know".

[–] ModernDayWarrior (114) 4 years ago

They knew what was going on.. you could see that by their actions about halfway in. Quite a few of them freaked out and hid when the curfew announcer came on; they looked like they had been terrorized before about it. The hotel manager seemed to be in cahoots with Cochran it showed during the misfire scene. Starker was the only one who felt like disobeying the BS and he paid for it with his head.

I doubt the town itself were robots because Cochran admitted it took him forever to figure out how to get the robots to work and act all human. Ellie was his grand invention in terms of that; she was his first and only female robot. No way he could get an entire town into robots if it took him that long to figure out. He just scared the townsfolk into submission and got the workers brainwashed to be helping him.

Easy as pie when you have the money and cult of personality. Anything's possible.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Interesting. What do you think terrorized them into complying? I mean, we're talking about a town (rural) in the United States. It had to be under a county administration.