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Seeking to understand a story plot better, or to clear up confusion about certain aspects or plot points. Please also use the specific tag for the movie or TV series, if it exists.

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What is the history between Doug and Rachel?

First of all, Zoredache's answer is perfectly correct about his main motivation for caring about Rachel. She was at first a facilitator in bringing down Russo, to be taken care of and prepared for her …
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What's the relation between the different clans?

Now first of all, the previous movies wouldn't really clear that up either, they simply had completely different people and groups on their own, not related to the story or characters of this movie at …
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Why did those trucks/tractors act in a strange way?

You are right in your assumption that it was caused by the gravitational anomalies in his house. More precisely, it was the very slight gravitational time dilation caused by the anomalies. This interf …
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Who caused the bus crash?

While I don't have much more "hard" evidence than anyone else for either theory of who caused the crash, I would make a strong case for the doctor doing it, or at least being ultimately responsible fo …
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What legends or stories is Hero (2002) based on?

The story has a historical background. It is set in a time when China was split into many smaller states fighting against each other and the king of Qin trying to conquer the other realms, which he la …
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How does Ed Exley hear what's said outside the interview room?

Well, I don't have proof for this and haven't thought as much about it as you did. I always just took it as a lucky guess and a nice fitting scene, even if not perfectly realistic. You're right in tha …
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Do Frodo and Bilbo live forever at the end of the Lord of the Rings trilogy?

The elves are immortal by nature and it isn't Valinor that makes them immortal (they would have lived forever in Middle Earth, too, they just go to a nicer place to live). Likewise does it not cause t …
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What did Muir think was going to happen after he left McLean?

Let's look at the options the CIA got: Pursue him legally. Although he has certainly broken the law with his actions, the CIA cannot just admit that they got deceived by a single employee who invade …
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Why was Lucius Fox fired?

To be honest, that was something which also bothered me when watching it the first times. Why fire him just for asking this single question? But it certainly makes sense, even if probably not written …
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How did Dr. Stu Price lose his tooth in The Hangover?

Do you mean how he lost it? During the night someone said he was a bad dentist and bet with him that he couldn't extract a tooth on himself, which he then tried to defend his honor as dentist, and wel …
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What was the meaning of Schultz's flashback of dogs?

In fact my answer is very similar to KeyBrd Basher's but I'm still going to post my views: I for myself wouldn't say that with this flashback he realized Candie was going to kill them all (which I'm …
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How does Batman know to rescue Selina Kyle outside the home of John Daggett?

He didn't know Selina was there at all and didn't come for her, but for Dagget (and ultimately Bane). So it was indeed a coincidence that he arrived just in time. As to the question of why he was vis …
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What was the reasoning for turning off the fences?

Still it wasn't his goal to avoid any disaster, rather on the contrary. In the end Dennis Nedry was hired by a competiting organization/company for industrial espionage, to steal the embryos. So prod …
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Does Mr. Greenleaf know about Tom's true personality and why does he pay him the money?

Nearing the end of the movie The Talented Mr. Ripley Tom Ripley is told by MacCarron that he has digged into Tom's past and found out that he never was in Princeton with Dickie, thus exposing him as a …
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Why did the aliens let a 50 year old ship into the Mothership?

Of course a possible out-of-universe explanation is that this inconsistency was just ignored by the filmmakers (since Independence Day is not that famous for its realistic plot). But one could also c …
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