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100 Things I Learned from MAN ON A LEDGE


1. Lobster and french fries make a fine last meal.

2. You can break into a high security vault and then hold a high profile realtor at gun point without going to jail even for one day.

3. Protesting homeless men have got your back.

4. A huge wire going into your ear that you consistently talk into is invisible to suicide negotiators.

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93. Super-hot Latina chicks likes to hangout with Inbred looking white men.

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94. Best way to proove you didnt steal a diamond is to hold it in your hands.

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99. the town where this movie was made in doesnt have a problem with pidgeons sitting on ledges

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100. Hot female detective don't drive. They arrived at the crime scene in the back of a taxi.

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101. Cops like to call other cops douches.

Utah! Get me two.

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102. Claustrophobia sets in when you only have a few feet left to go.

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103. Prisons don't have barbers.

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104. Genesis Rodriguez is super hot and sexy and very bangable!


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- if you are a news helicopter, dont bother using the zoom on your camera. no, just fly right up to the ledge and try to film it from 6 feet away

- if you want to break into the roof of a building dont try and do it secretly when no-one might be looking. no, first make sure that you have a giant crowd of people and policemen and news cameras and make sure that they are all looking up at that exact moment

- make sure that you leave all the detailed plans in your cell before you escape. don't worry, nobody will even bother looking through your things after you escape, they'll only do that later if they can think of a reason

- if you're lucky there is a mattress lying around on the roof of the building already, so you only have to bring along a heavy slab of metal and a variety of different heavy looking drills etc

- in a top security vault the panels next to it just sort of peel open so you can smash the wall up and then clean up the mess within less than a minute if you need to

- top security vaults needs so much air in them that they will have a gigantic air shaft that you can fit a person through

- to enter the vault you enter through the air vent at ground level next to the door, crawl along far enough to make you claustrophobic, then drop down to the floor below yet still be on the same level

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"to enter the vault you enter through the air vent at ground level next to the door, crawl along far enough to make you claustrophobic, then drop down to the floor below yet still be on the same level"

Thank god someone mentioned that, it was driving me a bit nuts, I guess theres a reason and without seeing a building plan thingie we wont know the reason why but it seemed so freakin odd! she didnt at any point climb up a shaft did she? So why did she suddenly need too drop down?!

Number whatever -People in new york take newborn babies along to watch jumpers (50 minutes in, shes in the crowd, babe in arms)

Number whatever+another - promo pictures for films exagerate the amount of people intrested in watching a man jump from a ledge

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Why not this one: wipe all your fingertrips from the room just to leave them on the window when you open it to stand on the ledge. And not one of the cops will think about checking it. Yeah sure how would they know a guy had to touch it just to be where he is ?

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- You can climb the edge of a building using only your fingertips and brogues, including the 6 feet of overhanging eaves at the top.

- A man on a skateboard wearing a sheet is indistinguishable from a white tiled floor.

- CPU's in security panels look like big long buildings

- Security panels can be opened with a nail file, and they always color code the one wire that will disable them.

- Corridors contain infra-red sensors, but super hi-tech vaults just use a thermometer, which you can defeat by being quick.

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123 (approximately) Elizabeth Bank's has a makeup and hair stylist, who fixes her hair and makeup while she is asleep.

124 Damn! That was Ed Harris?? He doesnt look well. Someone at the very least buy him a sandwich and at the very most book him a doctors appointment.

125 Rich business owners from poor backgrounds are total basterds. I think he may ended up sharing a cell with that old powerful dude from Inside Man.

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If you check into a hotel, they will very conveniently give you a room on the 25th floor. Imagine the conversation - Receptionist: "welcome, Mr Cassidy. You're in room 210 on the 2nd floor, just up the stairs over there....". Nick: "oh, damn.....er........er......"

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- Ed Harris will blow you a cheeky kiss and a wave as he walks away from the crime scene and nobody will think nothing of it

- The best time & place to propose to your girlfriend is after a very stressful day in a crowded bar.

- It's very easy to walk through crowds & persue the man your after even though everyone is there to see you.

- It's fine to steal another diamond ring in lesser value than $40 to give to your girlfriend as an engagement ring as long as it belongs to the bad guy

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131. As a suicide negotiator your first priority is to put your makeup on before arriving.

132. A crowd of 50 groaning will muffle a high rise explosion.

133. If convicted have your brother commit countless felonies to prove your innocent.

134. If your lead actress may be an alcoholic it's ok to have her hanging out in a bar at the end.

135. Even though your a thief give your girlfriend tons of *beep* for stealing years ago.

136. It takes the nyc police forever to figure out who a jumper is.

137. After the biggest event in your life, go to the pub and become the town hero immediately after.

138. Eating stale fries off a hotel room plate during a major situation is normal.

139. Detectives and negotiators hate each other for no reason.

140. This movie is absurd.

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141. When someone is standing on a narrow ledge threatening to jump, but not jumping, fly your helicopter close in an attempt to blow him off the ledge so you can get that shot of him falling off.

142. Why do the heist yourself even if you know the security layout so well. Have your brother and his girlfriend do it for you while you hang out on a ledge.

143. Just tell the prison/court system that you have to attend your father's funeral, even though it's a fake funeral. The prison will not check the records.

144. If you escape from prison, don't worry, your picture is not being sent to every police department in the country. In fact, your former colleagues in your own city will not recognize you either.

145. Have your father, who's a bar owner, get a job at the hotel for the sole purpose of passing the diamond off from your brother to him, then to you. Nice way to include all your family in a crime.

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146: When your dad is undercover as a bellhop and serves you a cheeseburger while your out on a ledge, just eat it. Everybody needs nourishment, even during a major heist like this.

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Noo. Nick had booked the room in advanve

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147. The magic carpetbag from 1964's Mary Poppins finally makes a re-appearance when Billy Elliott brings it on a heist and pulls about 300 things weighing a ton out of it.

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148. Handcuff a Latina and beat her boyfriend and she will yell “hijo de puta” repeatedly instead of saying it in English.

149. A bunch of Irish people in an Irish pub celebrate an Irish boy proposing to a Latina.

150. Giving a bellhop a $100 tip is a sign of an honest man.


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148. In times of high stress, people revert to their first language. if her first lamguage is Spanish, then she will revert to it at times like this

149. Ummm...why not? i'm Irish as they make 'em here, I see no reason for objecting. More bigoted irish guys might dislike her either marrying an Englishman, or a Pakistani/Indian...but not apart from that

150. Who said it proved he was an honest man? The bellhop simply tells the detective. he never says it shows he's honest

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151. If you're on an elaborate heist and you drop one of your tools in an elevator shaft, just hope you won't need it.

152. It's a proven method for a sucide negotiator to engage and disengage her subject on a ledge, returning to the room just to have prolonged coffee breaks and random conversations with her colleagues inside. This builds confidence and trust with the subject. And makes her in fact the best in town.

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153 - Not to watch crap without checking IMDB

Darkness lies an inch ahead

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