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Originally Posted by Bullitt68
There's a difference between coming back from Burn After Reading and running around the forums going Brad Pitt dies, it's really surprising, Clooney shoots him while he's hiding in the closet and then relaying what I figured was common knowledge that John Dillinger dies.
Even if you've never read anything about the man---which is very hard for me to fathom since he's arguably one of the top five most infamous men in 20th Century American history---how about Reservoir Dogs when Lawrence Tierney tells them that Mr. Blue is dead? Buscemi goes, "Mr. Blue is dead?" to which Tierney responds, "Dead as Dillinger."
He's an enormous part of popular culture. How a person can go through their entire lifetime never having attained the knowledge that John Dillinger was a bank robber that was gunned down in the 1930s is on the level of someone going through their life never learning that Hitler was the brains behind the Holocaust and killed himself towards the end of the war.
Oh, no. Did I just spoil Valkyrie by ruining the surprise that Tom Cruise's plan to kill Hitler doesn't actually succeed?
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I completely agree did anyone watch
Titanic and not know it was going to sink. Or watch
Passion of the Christ and not know Christ was going to get crucified. When watching a movie that is made based on a well-known event/person, talking about it isn't spoiling it, as it is common knowledge. Common knowledge doesn't mean that everyone knows it, just that its something that can be assumed, they do.