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Why isn't Dodd prepared?

posted 9 years ago by avortac
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According to the movie, the story goes like this:

1) Dodd happens to see the Jaguar that looks exactly like Jimmy Grant's Jaguar. He honks and gets the Jaguar to stop, then pulls a gun and eventually shoots the window of said Jaguar.

2) The driver of the Jaguar gets away (in the Jaguar, which he didn't disable or guard when chasing after the driver (Leonard, of course))

3) Dodd comes back to his motel (apparently gun-waving drug dealers have no other business to attend to, first, not even grocery shopping), and sees the JAGUAR PARKED IN THE PARKING LOT of his motel

4) Seeing _THE_ Jaguar with broken window parked, where he can freely inspect it (including the trunk and glove compartment) raises absolutely _NO_SUSPICION_ in him, and he just glances at it and just waltzes into his motel room, completely UNSUSPECTING that there's anything wrong, or that there might be a trap, or that the guy that killed Jimmy G might be nearby, or anything.

5) So seeing a Jaguar whizz by quickly, he's able to recognize and home in on it, and know it was Jimmy's car, but being able to take a good, LONG look at it, while it's parked, when there's all the time in the world, he DOESN'T recognize it, or think anything of it. "Just another jag, probably not the same", is his judgment this time... ?

Wouldn't you, as Dodd, be immediately alerted, suspicious, and at least friggin' DISABLE the Jaguar finally, when you next see it, after that kind of an encounter, where you had NO PROBLEM shooting its window (although targeting the driver)? Shouldn't killing a car and breaking into its trunk and glove compartment be small potatoes compared to trying to murder a human being, and wouldn't that be the first thing anyone would do as Dodd?

Furthermore, AFTER finding the money and transporting it to your car AND alerting the other drug dealers and whatever other thugs you know that would help you in such a situation, wouldn't you, as a big gang of thugs, now KNOW that the driver is somewhere nearby, possibly at Dodd's motel room (why else would the Jaguar happen to be parked at the same motel's parking lot?), and thus be EXTREMELY CAREFUL in approaching Dodd's apartment, and COMPLETELY PREPARED to murder anyone that's even slightly moving in there (especially someone taking a shower, naked?)

This doesn't make any sense (just like most of this movie, when you think about it).

WHAT WAS DODD THINKING?! (or doing?)

And why?

Also, a naked guy against a fully-dressed killer with a gun? And the NAKED GUY WINS?!

[–] quint88 8 years ago

Clearly, you underestimate.::the value.::of SUPRISE!

[–] mad_weather 8 years ago

3) Dodd comes back to his motel (apparently gun-waving drug dealers have no other business to attend to, first, not even grocery shopping), and sees the JAGUAR PARKED IN THE PARKING LOT of his motel

Does he? We don't see him walking on the perking lot, so we don't know what he sees, but we know that when Lenny arrives at the hotel, he's clearly aware of his intention to ambush someone, regardless of whether he still remembers anything else. It's reasonable to assume he'd be smart enough to hide his car somewhere far from unwanted eyes.

[–] leemcqueen-1 8 years ago

This doesn't make any sense (just like most of this movie, when you think about it).

How does it not make any sense?

Or are you too dumb to understand it?

[–] The_Ultimate_Hippo 8 years ago

Maybe Dodd just didn't see the Jaguar in the parking lot. What I don't get is how did Dodd not notice someone using his shower?

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