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"Welcome to my humble house" makes no sense


Ok, so we're shown in a very theatrical way what a luxurious villa (or whatever it is) the owner of 'Pepe' has, when he painstakingly opens the super heavy double doors to reveal a big gardenlike inner.. patio? I don't know what that's called, but we also hear music playing and everything seems luxurious.

Then he even tells Jack (why is it always 'Jack' or 'John'? 'John Connor', 'John Matrix', you name it, it's almost always 'Jack' or 'John'! This bugs me to no end) to 'get the door' afterwards, so obviously it's a big hassle, and he likes to keep it closed, and he doesn't want to always do it by himself (he HAS servants or some kind of help, so why does he EVER open it by himself anyway?)..

However, why were the doors closed to begin with? Does he go to the doors, open them, then close them, then do the 'hit the road, gringo'-stuff from the small slot?

I mean, what was he doing before he came to the door? We don't hear those massive doors being opened and shut (they're big and heavy, so surely we would hear something) before he opens the small slot, so was he just in some kind of side hallway toilet and just wanted to keep the main big doors shut for some reason?

No matter how I try to think about it, I can't make it make sense... the big heavy doors should have been OPEN, because he was right there, going to the door, but nope, they were fully closed so we get the 'reveal shot'.

When they do this 'cinematic stuff' and 'reveals' and 'twists', they almost NEVER think the 'inner-universe story', because it almost never makes sense from the character's viewpoint.

Would YOU constantly keep opening and closing those massive doors every time you go to the door and back? Alternatively, would you just keep them closed while you are in the OTHER SIDE of them, so you don't get to enjoy your beautiful garden when you are .. doing what?? ..

In any case, this scene makes NO sense... movie writers didn't really think much even in the eighties, let alone these days. THESE people going on strike isn't going to deprive the world of anything valuable.

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