Originally posted by Don Cardi:
[quote]Originally posted by juventus:
[b] It's a good movie but I got a few questions:
1)Noodles did think Max died at the bank-robbery. But the burned body wasn't Max. But how come Noodles didn't know Max wasn't at the robbery. His other friends must have known that Max send someone else (the burned body) to do the robbery.
2)Also Max (and maybe the others) know that they were going to die at the robbery, why does he/they do it?
3) Why doesn't want Max that Noodles would come along to the robbery?
It's been quite some time since I watched the movie, but if memory serves me correctly, I might be able to answer some of your questions :
1) His other friends died in the robbery, so even if they knew that Max was not there at first, they may have been told that this other guy was a last minute addition and they died anyway so Noodles would never know.
2) Max knew that they would die, but he was not there! I don't think that the others knew that they would die the way they wound up dying.
3) Max doesn't want Noodles to come because that is part of Max's elite plan. Max knew that the others would die because he set it up that way, and Max really loved Noodles in a sick and strange way, and would not have had Noodles die. Instead he made it look like he ( Max ) died so that he could start a new life, and at the same time he spared the Life of Noodles, his best friend. That is the Irony at the end, that part of Max's plan was that if the time ever came where his new life went sour and he had to go, he could always count on Noodles wanting revenge on him for what he did. That is why Max let Noodles know that he was alive at the end, that he set everything up, hoping that Noodles would seek revenge and kill him ( max ) making it an easy out for Max. But Noodles best revenge was NOT killing Max, because as Max told Noodles at the end, he could only accept being killed from Him. Noodles really got his revenge by NOT killing Max.
Again, I have not watched this movie in quite a long time, but this is how I remember it.
Don Cardi
[/b][/quote]What do you mean Max set everyone up at the last bootlegging job? (it wasnt a robbery) i thought noodles called the cops on max and everyone else and the police came and max started shooting and the police killed all of them.
