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** I'm going to suggest that maybe it was deliberate. There are several other WMGs speculating that Cocteau manipulated numerous events in the background leading up to Phoenix's release. It is possible that his original plan involved getting Friendly to steal the guns and become an even bigger problem for the city so that Cocteau could then justifiably rally against TheEvilsOfFreeWill. But Friendly isn't a mass murderer, just a delinquent. So he didn't take the bait. Releasing Phoenix was Cocteau's Plan B.
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** I'm going to suggest that maybe it was deliberate. There are several other WMGs [=WMGs=] speculating that Cocteau manipulated numerous events in the background leading up to Phoenix's release. It is possible that his original plan involved getting Friendly to steal the guns and become an even bigger problem for the city so that Cocteau could then justifiably rally against TheEvilsOfFreeWill. But Friendly isn't a mass murderer, just a delinquent. So he didn't take the bait. Releasing Phoenix was Cocteau's Plan B.
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** They aren't necessarily depicting anything in real life. The creators of this movie could've just staged a violent scene and photographed it. Maybe they even used stills from some other movie.
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*** It's entirely possible that rehabilitation doesn't work very well. Sometimes your intended skills/limits get implemented, and sometimes they don't. As far as San Andreas is concerned it doesn't matter. If they unfreeze you and find that you haven't been rehabilitated, they just stick you back in cryo for another 20 years.
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** The advantage of cryostasis is that escape is basically impossible. The world was going to hell back in the 90s and they probably had a lot of jailbreaks, so they invented cryostasis to stop that from happening.
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** The simplest answer is that people with Obscenities-Tourettes just get fined a million credits and then they're put in cryo because they were fined a million credits. Nobody ever said that San Andreas was fair. (There are probably some people with Tourettes who join the scrappers specifically to avoid cryo).
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*** Not exactly, Phoenix says he doesnt want any "MAD DOG killer types" as in, he doesn't want any of them to have the desire to try to kill him to become the gang leader
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*** Not exactly, Phoenix says he doesnt doesn't want any "MAD DOG killer types" as in, he doesn't want any of them to have the desire to try to kill him to become the gang leaderleader.
** Simplest explanation is that Cocteau overreacted to the "threat" of Edgar Friendly, and seemed to think he needed someone badass to take him, he was so used to running a pacifistic nanny state that he never had to learn how to properly gauge anyone acting even slightly outside his whims, so, Edgar Friendly: guy who just wants a burger, cigars and to get laid, became Edgar Friendly: Super genius terrorist.
** Simplest explanation is that Cocteau overreacted to the "threat" of Edgar Friendly, and seemed to think he needed someone badass to take him, he was so used to running a pacifistic nanny state that he never had to learn how to properly gauge anyone acting even slightly outside his whims, so, Edgar Friendly: guy who just wants a burger, cigars and to get laid, became Edgar Friendly: Super genius terrorist.
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** This is the same problem Cocteau had with Phoenix. He did not think things through and consider the likely consequnces of his plans. He thought that without a clear leader the scraps would either slink away into the sewers or be forced to join his soceity.
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* Did it not occur to Cocteau that having Edgar Friendly assassinated might make him a martyr to his followers and kick off the very revolution he was trying to stop? Under Friendly's leadership, the scraps were doing little more stealing food and trolling the surface with their graffiti-spraying gadgets. Killing Friendly just means San Angelos will suddenly have hordes of angry, heavily-armed people coming out of the sewers to avenge their fallen leader; and keep in mind that the San Angelos police were having a hard enough time dealing with one violent cryo-con (i.e., Phoenix)armed with weapons stolen from a museum exhibit, stopping all those pissed off scraps from rioting, looting, and wrecking the city would be next to impossible even with Spartan's help.
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* Did it not occur to Cocteau that having Edgar Friendly assassinated might make him a martyr to his followers and kick off the very revolution he was trying to stop? prevent? Under Friendly's leadership, the scraps were doing little more stealing food and trolling the surface with their graffiti-spraying gadgets. Killing Friendly just means San Angelos will suddenly have hordes of angry, heavily-armed people coming out of the sewers to avenge their fallen leader; and keep in mind that the San Angelos police were having a hard enough time dealing with one violent cryo-con (i.e., Phoenix)armed Phoenix) armed with weapons stolen from a museum exhibit, stopping all those pissed off scraps from rioting, looting, and wrecking the city would be next to impossible even with Spartan's help.
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* Did it not occur to Cocteau that having Edgar Friendly assassinated might make him a martyr to his followers and kick off the very revolution he was trying to stop? Under Friendly's leadership, the scraps were doing little more stealing food and trolling the surface with their graffiti-spraying gadgets. Killing Friendly just means San Angelos will suddenly have hordes of angry, heavily-armed people coming out of the sewers to avenge their fallen leader; and not even John Spartan and/or Simon Phoenix would be enough to stop them all from rioting, looting, and wrecking the city.
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* Did it not occur to Cocteau that having Edgar Friendly assassinated might make him a martyr to his followers and kick off the very revolution he was trying to stop? Under Friendly's leadership, the scraps were doing little more stealing food and trolling the surface with their graffiti-spraying gadgets. Killing Friendly just means San Angelos will suddenly have hordes of angry, heavily-armed people coming out of the sewers to avenge their fallen leader; and not even John Spartan and/or Simon Phoenix would be keep in mind that the San Angelos police were having a hard enough to stop them time dealing with one violent cryo-con (i.e., Phoenix)armed with weapons stolen from a museum exhibit, stopping all those pissed off scraps from rioting, looting, and wrecking the city.city would be next to impossible even with Spartan's help.
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* Did it not occur to Cocteau that having Edgar Friendly assassinated might make him a martyr to the other scraps and kick off the very revolution he was trying to stop? Under Friendly's leadership, the scraps were doing little more stealing food and trolling the surface with their graffiti gadgets. Killing their beloved leader just gives them a reason to come out of the sewers and seek revenge for his murder; and even John Spartan and/or Simon Phoenix wouldn't be enough to stop that many heavily armed and angry people from rioting, looting, and wrecking the city.
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* Did it not occur to Cocteau that having Edgar Friendly assassinated might make him a martyr to the other scraps his followers and kick off the very revolution he was trying to stop? Under Friendly's leadership, the scraps were doing little more stealing food and trolling the surface with their graffiti graffiti-spraying gadgets. Killing their beloved leader Friendly just gives them a reason to come means San Angelos will suddenly have hordes of angry, heavily-armed people coming out of the sewers to avenge their fallen leader; and seek revenge for his murder; and not even John Spartan and/or Simon Phoenix wouldn't would be enough to stop that many heavily armed and angry people them all from rioting, looting, and wrecking the city.
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* Did it not occur to Cocteau that having Edgar Friendly assassinated might make him a martyr to the other scraps and kick off the very revolution he was trying to stop? Under Friendly's leadership, the scraps were doing little more stealing food and trolling the surface with their graffiti gadgets. Killing their beloved leader just gives them a reason to come out of the sewers and seek revenge for his murder; and even John Spartan and/or Simon Phoenix wouldn't be enough to stop that many heavily armed and angry people from rioting, looting, and wrecking the city.
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* I may have missed something, but why didn't Cocteau just get an assassin instead of [[AxCrazy Phoenix]]? If he wanted Edgar Friendly dead he could have gotten someone who would listen to him? Did they not have anyone in cryostasis who would follow instructions if they were paid? It seems massively stupid to get someone who was crazy, make him [[UpToEleven crazier]], more powerful, and [[TooDumbToLive then release him]]?
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* I may have missed something, but why didn't Cocteau just get an assassin instead of [[AxCrazy Phoenix]]? If he wanted Edgar Friendly dead he could have gotten someone who would listen to him? Did they not have anyone in cryostasis who would follow instructions if they were paid? It seems massively stupid to get someone who was crazy, make him [[UpToEleven crazier]], crazier, more powerful, and [[TooDumbToLive then release him]]?
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*** Or Cocteau prepared it all for Phoenix. What was Cocteau doing anywhere close to the museum anyway?
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*** Also, considering that most of what was listed as "illegal" in their society, there's a good chance that they used alternatives or recipes drastically different from anything that exists on their menu now or previously.
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* I understand that as far as Chief Earle knows Spartan is a convicted murderer and he was against unfreezing him... but doesn't his sheer undisguised ''loathing'' of Spartan run heavily against the polite, non-aggressive ethos embraced by the San Angeles society? I mean he outright insults Spartan to his face several times before he even makes it into uniform ("Caveman let's finish with the Rip Van Winkle and get moving.") Given how prissy and non-confrontational the rest of the cops are why does no one make an issue of Earle's bad attitude?
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** We have popular songs today about hard drugs.
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** Neither of the answers seem to be what the OP asked: They were asking what, if anything, the pictures were ''of'', not why the museum would've used them.
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** It's not a total explanation, but part of it might be the same sort of phenomenon as the internet today. Most of us are old enough to remember the world before Google, Wikipedia and [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife TV Tropes]], but it's still hard to relate to if you're an internet junkie nowadays. The same thing's probably happened with adults in the future, but even more so since society itself has totally changed: they kinda remember what it was like before, but the world's changed so much that it's only in a vague "wow, how did we ever survive back then" sorta way.
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** It's not a total explanation, but part of it might be the same sort of phenomenon as the internet today. Most of us are old enough to remember the world before Google, Wikipedia and [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife TV Tropes]], but it's still hard to relate to if you're an internet junkie nowadays. The same thing's probably happened with adults in the future, but even more so since society itself has totally changed: they kinda remember what it was like before, but the world's changed so much that it's only in a vague "wow, how did we ever survive back then" sorta way.
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** Whatever recipes that Taco Bell had in this version of the future clearly does not reflect the current recipe. It's true with many restaurants even in real life. For example, KFC's fried chicken. The Colonel Sanders' recipe of "original 12 herbs and spices" isn't even remotely used anymore. That means that what's used today is entirely different from what he originally used. So, when it comes to Taco Bell in the world of the film, the food recipes are no longer the same as they are in the real world. And with what we do see of one of the dinner plates and the items in the food truck, it's clear that Taco Bell in the world of the story is not the fast food we are accustom to, but looks to be more of an upscale restaurant. So, it's safe to say Taco Bell in the film's universe doesn't have any spices involved with their food.
