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[[WMG: This is what Ray Finkle had to have been up to]]
Not only is this movie super transphobic, but the whole plot twist of Einhorn secretly being Finkle makes the entire movie make absolutely no sense. This is less of a WMG and more just trying to breakdown exactly what the movie claims happened:
Ray Finkle misses a field goal at the 1983 Super Bowl, costing the Miami Dolphins the championship. He and his family are endlessly harassed about this, to the point where it is impossible to live normal lives. Moving away from Florida seems not to occur to them. Instead of blaming this behavior on the mean-spirited mercurial Dolphins fans that are actually causing him harm, or on the team management for (seemingly?) cutting him after a pretty good season because of one missed kick, he blames Dan Marino for supposedly placing the ball incorrectly. He has an unspecified breakdown of some sort and is institutionalized, not because he can't handle the criminal harassment, but because he has severe homicidal tendencies towards Dan Marino.
What happens next is incredibly unclear. Finkle's treatment at the mental hospital doesn't appear to do him any good. Eventually he reads a newspaper article about a missing hiker named Lois Einhorn. I have to assume at this point that the real Einhorn was NOT a police officer, as I don't believe that was mentioned in the news article that Ace finds, and you'd think a story about a missing cop would be much more attention-getting than just a random missing person. Finkle escapes with a plan seemingly consisting of "Take the identity of Lois Einhorn... and wait."
If the real Einhorn wasn't a cop yet, that means that Finkle 1) somehow got a lot of money, so he could 2) pay for a lot of cosmetic surgery. Yes, it's possible he got estrogen by other means than a doctor, and that the breasts are just growth and not implants, but that old picture of Finkle in the Dolphins' lineup is actually a picture of actress Sean Young, wearing a fake mustache, with beard stubble painted on, and most notably, stuffing in her cheeks to give her a larger jaw. At the very least, Finkle has some facial feminization surgery. Also, as a sidenote, leaving aside the face work, if we assume that (perhaps) the reason Finkle keeps his male genitals is because he can't actually find a shady doctor to fix him up, and that all the changes are purely due to shooting up an ocean of female hormones, wouldn't it be next to impossible for Finkle to get erections? I'm a cis guy, I don't know for sure what HRT does to your penis, but Ace clearly feels a hard-on.
Anyway, after Finkle gets himself fully feminized (aside from "Captain Winky"), he then 3) joins the police academy and slowly rises through the ranks into a position of power. All this time, apparently never sharing a locker room with other female officers, or taking a physical exam, or the department even doing a cursory background check on their recruit. Sure, he can make himself look like a woman (probably not like that actual Lois Einhorn, but we'll get to that), and he can use a dead woman's name, but if they looked into things at all, they would know that the real Lois Einhorn disappeared on a hiking trip years ago.
Now, if the real Einhorn was ALREADY a cop, that means that Finkle still has to do steps 1 and 2 from above, but also the surgery has to make him look identical to a person that lots of people will recognize. He'll have to look just like Einhorn to a whole department of cops, and know Einhorn's mannerisms and personality, not to mention knowing all the police procedure that allows him to stay a cop. He’ll also need an excuse for where “she” was between going missing and coming back that won’t raise any suspicions. It's possible the film was implying that Finkle actually didn't know how to be a cop, and that's why she was making out with so many officers. So that they would cover for her. But like, come on. Kissing will only get you so far, and Finkle seems to be able to at least talk the talk every time we see them before the reveal. I personally believe it was Finkle as Einhorn who enlisted in the police academy.
For an unspecified amount of time, homicidal athlete Ray Finkle just lives as a female police lieutenant. Presumably handling all sorts of routine cases, supervising other officers, attending retirement parties, and harassing minorities. Typical cop stuff. Even though, having all the advantages of a cop and a face/body that looks nothing like his old self, he could have just gone to Dan Marino's house at any time, given a flimsy excuse about wanting to ask him some questions about something police related ("there was a shooting down the street last night. We want to get some testimony from neighbors to try and piece together when it likely happened. Mind if we go inside and talk?") and then just killed him. But whatever. I guess Finkle was waiting for the Dolphins to make it to another Super Bowl, so the loss would really hurt them. It's like that old Klingon proverb, revenge is a dish best served cold.
Eventually, the Dolphins make it to the Super Bowl. Now's the time to strike. Finkle is majorly pissed that the team assigned his old number to their mascot, Snowflake, so before taking his years-long revenge against Marino, he risks everything to steal the dolphin. Not kill the dolphin in its tank, but actually steal a big, live dolphin, and keep it alive. I get that Finkle is crazy, but if he was level-headed enough to be a cop for years and rise to the rank of lieutenant, then "mentally unstable" doesn't work as an excuse for why he's doing all of this. Maybe he didn't want to kill the dolphin in the tank because he thought making the team look for it would cause them more anguish. Okay, but why not just release it into the ocean? It's been a long time since I saw the movie, but was Finkle trying to ransom it? And if so, did he actually want the money, or was it just to keep everyone busy and distracted while he readied his real plan against Marino? He could have thrown it into a ditch somewhere and let it die; why go through the trouble of keeping it alive? It can only incriminate him, and risks him getting caught before he can kill Marino. He's got a real cushy union job right now; money shouldn't be a problem.
Also, for some reason, Finkle wears his old Super Bowl ring while pulling the dolphin heist, inadvertently leaving the only clue that Ace has to act on. Um... why was he wearing it? I understand that it's sort of symbolic, but those rings are huge and not something you want to wear while doing anything of importance with your hands, like covertly stealing a live dolphin. If he wanted to be really creepy, he could have purposefully left the whole ring behind, knowing that his disguise was perfect and he was practically impossible to catch. They would immediately start checking on everyone from the '83 season, and find Finkle has disappeared. This would be major news, Finkle's name would be everywhere. Nobody knows what happened to him or where he is, but he's pissed at the Dolphins when they have everything to lose. It would have been great psychological torture. Much better than simply taking their mascot and hoping the team would be too demoralized or superstitious to play well. But I digress.
During the investigation for the missing mascot, Roger Podacter, the team manager, must have started flirting with Einhorn and for some reason they reciprocate, and go up to Roger's apartment. I'm assuming Roger was the one who initiated things, because the stated reason he was murdered was that he discovered her penis, so I can't imagine Einhorn would start a potential sexual encounter knowing how things could go. Although this does raise the question of why she went along with him anyway. Perhaps Roger wasn't as nice of a guy as famed character-actor Troy Evans made him out to be. Maybe he contacted Einhorn with the pretense that he discovered something about the case, and they (pronouns are so fucking hard when describing Finkle/Einhorn; I'm sorry if I'm causing offense) showed up to see if Roger was getting close to the truth. Once there, he tries to assault Einhorn, and discovers “Captain Winky.” This may lead to him getting even more violent, which could have caused Einhorn to throw him from his balcony in self-defense. Again, I've had to make some assumptions. I'm assuming that he remained violent after discovering her male parts, because killing him just for knowing only makes it more likely she'll get caught. Yes, he could try to tell people she "isn't really a woman" or whatever, but who would believe him? I know, the patriarchy is awful and always ready to believe men over women, but do you really think that if this old, fat man started telling a story about how he got this smoking hot cop back to his apartment and found a dick, that anyone would believe that? He'd have to frame the encounter as consensual, meaning that whoever he's trying to tell his story to would have to believe that he has such game as to pull a hottie like that, and that somehow she has male genitals, even though, as I've previously stated, it would be pretty damn hard to be a trans cop back then. I'm sure it's hard now, but at least trans people have visibility; back then mainstream society thought of them as almost mythical creatures. Nobody would have believed him. It's not like Podacter thinking (knowing?) she's trans in any way connects her to Finkle or the Snowflake case. His whole murder is a big headscratcher.
On the subject of his murder, Ace makes the point that it couldn't have been suicide, because the glass was soundproof and the sliding door was closed, meaning he screamed when he was pushed and the killer closed the door as he left. Except, they said a neighbor heard him scream. What if the neighbor's balcony door or windows were open?
Eventually, Finkle kidnaps Marino. Instead of murdering him right away, he keeps him alive for a while, presumably to watch his team lose without him. That's dumb, but it's typical movie villain dumb, so I'll let it slide. Ace and then the cops show up, and to prove his point, Ace violently strips Finkle/Einhorn in front of everybody. Cops are surrounding them on all sides, but it takes Dan Marino pointing out to Ace that you can see Finkle's penis for everyone to notice. Even though, if you watch the shot, there's at least half a dozen cops also standing behind Einhorn that don't get grossed out until Ace turns her away from them. I guess that's less of a plot hole more just bad direction. So all the cops are grossed out because she's made out with all of them, and Snowflake also thrashes his head around, implying she smooched the dolphin? Is that what they were going for? God, this movie is dumb.
Speaking of dumb, that whole transphobic strip scene was entirely unnecessary because Dan Marino is right there, alive and conscious. The whole reason Ace "has" to strip her is to prove his wild theory that she's really Ray Finkle, otherwise she's going to blame the entire kidnapping plot on him. Why doesn't Marino just say, "Hey, everyone! Actually it was the lady who kidnapped me and the dolphin. Ace just saved my life." If he can point out that he can see her tuck, he can also point out that she is the real criminal.
They could have kept basically the same plot and just have Einhorn have been a former patient at the asylum who was working with Finkle, or Finkle was dead and she was trying to avenge him; she could have been his girlfriend or sister or any sort of relationship and the basic premise still would have worked. Making Einhorn BE Finkle causes the whole plot to collapse.
If you've managed to read this far down, you've probably been on your computer too long. Go outside. Touch grass.
[[WMG: This is what Ray Finkle had to have been up to]]
Not only is this movie super transphobic, but the whole plot twist of Einhorn secretly being Finkle makes the entire movie make absolutely no sense. This is less of a WMG and more just trying to breakdown exactly what the movie claims happened:
Ray Finkle misses a field goal at the 1983 Super Bowl, costing the Miami Dolphins the championship. He and his family are endlessly harassed about this, to the point where it is impossible to live normal lives. Moving away from Florida seems not to occur to them. Instead of blaming this behavior on the mean-spirited mercurial Dolphins fans that are actually causing him harm, or on the team management for (seemingly?) cutting him after a pretty good season because of one missed kick, he blames Dan Marino for supposedly placing the ball incorrectly. He has an unspecified breakdown of some sort and is institutionalized, not because he can't handle the criminal harassment, but because he has severe homicidal tendencies towards Dan Marino.
What happens next is incredibly unclear. Finkle's treatment at the mental hospital doesn't appear to do him any good. Eventually he reads a newspaper article about a missing hiker named Lois Einhorn. I have to assume at this point that the real Einhorn was NOT a police officer, as I don't believe that was mentioned in the news article that Ace finds, and you'd think a story about a missing cop would be much more attention-getting than just a random missing person. Finkle escapes with a plan seemingly consisting of "Take the identity of Lois Einhorn... and wait."
If the real Einhorn wasn't a cop yet, that means that Finkle 1) somehow got a lot of money, so he could 2) pay for a lot of cosmetic surgery. Yes, it's possible he got estrogen by other means than a doctor, and that the breasts are just growth and not implants, but that old picture of Finkle in the Dolphins' lineup is actually a picture of actress Sean Young, wearing a fake mustache, with beard stubble painted on, and most notably, stuffing in her cheeks to give her a larger jaw. At the very least, Finkle has some facial feminization surgery. Also, as a sidenote, leaving aside the face work, if we assume that (perhaps) the reason Finkle keeps his male genitals is because he can't actually find a shady doctor to fix him up, and that all the changes are purely due to shooting up an ocean of female hormones, wouldn't it be next to impossible for Finkle to get erections? I'm a cis guy, I don't know for sure what HRT does to your penis, but Ace clearly feels a hard-on.
Anyway, after Finkle gets himself fully feminized (aside from "Captain Winky"), he then 3) joins the police academy and slowly rises through the ranks into a position of power. All this time, apparently never sharing a locker room with other female officers, or taking a physical exam, or the department even doing a cursory background check on their recruit. Sure, he can make himself look like a woman (probably not like that actual Lois Einhorn, but we'll get to that), and he can use a dead woman's name, but if they looked into things at all, they would know that the real Lois Einhorn disappeared on a hiking trip years ago.
Now, if the real Einhorn was ALREADY a cop, that means that Finkle still has to do steps 1 and 2 from above, but also the surgery has to make him look identical to a person that lots of people will recognize. He'll have to look just like Einhorn to a whole department of cops, and know Einhorn's mannerisms and personality, not to mention knowing all the police procedure that allows him to stay a cop. He’ll also need an excuse for where “she” was between going missing and coming back that won’t raise any suspicions. It's possible the film was implying that Finkle actually didn't know how to be a cop, and that's why she was making out with so many officers. So that they would cover for her. But like, come on. Kissing will only get you so far, and Finkle seems to be able to at least talk the talk every time we see them before the reveal. I personally believe it was Finkle as Einhorn who enlisted in the police academy.
For an unspecified amount of time, homicidal athlete Ray Finkle just lives as a female police lieutenant. Presumably handling all sorts of routine cases, supervising other officers, attending retirement parties, and harassing minorities. Typical cop stuff. Even though, having all the advantages of a cop and a face/body that looks nothing like his old self, he could have just gone to Dan Marino's house at any time, given a flimsy excuse about wanting to ask him some questions about something police related ("there was a shooting down the street last night. We want to get some testimony from neighbors to try and piece together when it likely happened. Mind if we go inside and talk?") and then just killed him. But whatever. I guess Finkle was waiting for the Dolphins to make it to another Super Bowl, so the loss would really hurt them. It's like that old Klingon proverb, revenge is a dish best served cold.
Eventually, the Dolphins make it to the Super Bowl. Now's the time to strike. Finkle is majorly pissed that the team assigned his old number to their mascot, Snowflake, so before taking his years-long revenge against Marino, he risks everything to steal the dolphin. Not kill the dolphin in its tank, but actually steal a big, live dolphin, and keep it alive. I get that Finkle is crazy, but if he was level-headed enough to be a cop for years and rise to the rank of lieutenant, then "mentally unstable" doesn't work as an excuse for why he's doing all of this. Maybe he didn't want to kill the dolphin in the tank because he thought making the team look for it would cause them more anguish. Okay, but why not just release it into the ocean? It's been a long time since I saw the movie, but was Finkle trying to ransom it? And if so, did he actually want the money, or was it just to keep everyone busy and distracted while he readied his real plan against Marino? He could have thrown it into a ditch somewhere and let it die; why go through the trouble of keeping it alive? It can only incriminate him, and risks him getting caught before he can kill Marino. He's got a real cushy union job right now; money shouldn't be a problem.
Also, for some reason, Finkle wears his old Super Bowl ring while pulling the dolphin heist, inadvertently leaving the only clue that Ace has to act on. Um... why was he wearing it? I understand that it's sort of symbolic, but those rings are huge and not something you want to wear while doing anything of importance with your hands, like covertly stealing a live dolphin. If he wanted to be really creepy, he could have purposefully left the whole ring behind, knowing that his disguise was perfect and he was practically impossible to catch. They would immediately start checking on everyone from the '83 season, and find Finkle has disappeared. This would be major news, Finkle's name would be everywhere. Nobody knows what happened to him or where he is, but he's pissed at the Dolphins when they have everything to lose. It would have been great psychological torture. Much better than simply taking their mascot and hoping the team would be too demoralized or superstitious to play well. But I digress.
During the investigation for the missing mascot, Roger Podacter, the team manager, must have started flirting with Einhorn and for some reason they reciprocate, and go up to Roger's apartment. I'm assuming Roger was the one who initiated things, because the stated reason he was murdered was that he discovered her penis, so I can't imagine Einhorn would start a potential sexual encounter knowing how things could go. Although this does raise the question of why she went along with him anyway. Perhaps Roger wasn't as nice of a guy as famed character-actor Troy Evans made him out to be. Maybe he contacted Einhorn with the pretense that he discovered something about the case, and they (pronouns are so fucking hard when describing Finkle/Einhorn; I'm sorry if I'm causing offense) showed up to see if Roger was getting close to the truth. Once there, he tries to assault Einhorn, and discovers “Captain Winky.” This may lead to him getting even more violent, which could have caused Einhorn to throw him from his balcony in self-defense. Again, I've had to make some assumptions. I'm assuming that he remained violent after discovering her male parts, because killing him just for knowing only makes it more likely she'll get caught. Yes, he could try to tell people she "isn't really a woman" or whatever, but who would believe him? I know, the patriarchy is awful and always ready to believe men over women, but do you really think that if this old, fat man started telling a story about how he got this smoking hot cop back to his apartment and found a dick, that anyone would believe that? He'd have to frame the encounter as consensual, meaning that whoever he's trying to tell his story to would have to believe that he has such game as to pull a hottie like that, and that somehow she has male genitals, even though, as I've previously stated, it would be pretty damn hard to be a trans cop back then. I'm sure it's hard now, but at least trans people have visibility; back then mainstream society thought of them as almost mythical creatures. Nobody would have believed him. It's not like Podacter thinking (knowing?) she's trans in any way connects her to Finkle or the Snowflake case. His whole murder is a big headscratcher.
On the subject of his murder, Ace makes the point that it couldn't have been suicide, because the glass was soundproof and the sliding door was closed, meaning he screamed when he was pushed and the killer closed the door as he left. Except, they said a neighbor heard him scream. What if the neighbor's balcony door or windows were open?
Eventually, Finkle kidnaps Marino. Instead of murdering him right away, he keeps him alive for a while, presumably to watch his team lose without him. That's dumb, but it's typical movie villain dumb, so I'll let it slide. Ace and then the cops show up, and to prove his point, Ace violently strips Finkle/Einhorn in front of everybody. Cops are surrounding them on all sides, but it takes Dan Marino pointing out to Ace that you can see Finkle's penis for everyone to notice. Even though, if you watch the shot, there's at least half a dozen cops also standing behind Einhorn that don't get grossed out until Ace turns her away from them. I guess that's less of a plot hole more just bad direction. So all the cops are grossed out because she's made out with all of them, and Snowflake also thrashes his head around, implying she smooched the dolphin? Is that what they were going for? God, this movie is dumb.
Speaking of dumb, that whole transphobic strip scene was entirely unnecessary because Dan Marino is right there, alive and conscious. The whole reason Ace "has" to strip her is to prove his wild theory that she's really Ray Finkle, otherwise she's going to blame the entire kidnapping plot on him. Why doesn't Marino just say, "Hey, everyone! Actually it was the lady who kidnapped me and the dolphin. Ace just saved my life." If he can point out that he can see her tuck, he can also point out that she is the real criminal.
They could have kept basically the same plot and just have Einhorn have been a former patient at the asylum who was working with Finkle, or Finkle was dead and she was trying to avenge him; she could have been his girlfriend or sister or any sort of relationship and the basic premise still would have worked. Making Einhorn BE Finkle causes the whole plot to collapse.
If you've managed to read this far down, you've probably been on your computer too long. Go outside. Touch grass.
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...survived falling off a cliff and grew to [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014 become an intergalactic bounty hunter.]]
[[WMG: This is what Ray Finkle had to have been up to]]
Not only is this movie super transphobic, but the whole plot twist of Einhorn secretly being Finkle makes the entire movie make absolutely no sense. This is less of a WMG and more just trying to breakdown exactly what the movie claims happened:
Ray Finkle misses a field goal at the 1983 Super Bowl, costing the Miami Dolphins the championship. He and his family are endlessly harassed about this, to the point where it is impossible to live normal lives. Moving away from Florida seems not to occur to them. Instead of blaming this behavior on the mean-spirited mercurial Dolphins fans that are actually causing him harm, or on the team management for (seemingly?) cutting him after a pretty good season because of one missed kick, he blames Dan Marino for supposedly placing the ball incorrectly. He has an unspecified breakdown of some sort and is institutionalized, not because he can't handle the criminal harassment, but because he has severe homicidal tendencies towards Dan Marino.
What happens next is incredibly unclear. Finkle's treatment at the mental hospital doesn't appear to do him any good. Eventually he reads a newspaper article about a missing hiker named Lois Einhorn. I have to assume at this point that the real Einhorn was NOT a police officer, as I don't believe that was mentioned in the news article that Ace finds, and you'd think a story about a missing cop would be much more attention-getting than just a random missing person. Finkle escapes with a plan seemingly consisting of "Take the identity of Lois Einhorn... and wait."
If the real Einhorn wasn't a cop yet, that means that Finkle 1) somehow got a lot of money, so he could 2) pay for a lot of cosmetic surgery. Yes, it's possible he got estrogen by other means than a doctor, and that the breasts are just growth and not implants, but that old picture of Finkle in the Dolphins' lineup is actually a picture of actress Sean Young, wearing a fake mustache, with beard stubble painted on, and most notably, stuffing in her cheeks to give her a larger jaw. At the very least, Finkle has some facial feminization surgery. Also, as a sidenote, leaving aside the face work, if we assume that (perhaps) the reason Finkle keeps his male genitals is because he can't actually find a shady doctor to fix him up, and that all the changes are purely due to shooting up an ocean of female hormones, wouldn't it be next to impossible for Finkle to get erections? I'm a cis guy, I don't know for sure what HRT does to your penis, but Ace clearly feels a hard-on.
Anyway, after Finkle gets himself fully feminized (aside from "Captain Winky"), he then 3) joins the police academy and slowly rises through the ranks into a position of power. All this time, apparently never sharing a locker room with other female officers, or taking a physical exam, or the department even doing a cursory background check on their recruit. Sure, he can make himself look like a woman (probably not like that actual Lois Einhorn, but we'll get to that), and he can use a dead woman's name, but if they looked into things at all, they would know that the real Lois Einhorn disappeared on a hiking trip years ago.
Now, if the real Einhorn was ALREADY a cop, that means that Finkle still has to do steps 1 and 2 from above, but also the surgery has to make him look identical to a person that lots of people will recognize. He'll have to look just like Einhorn to a whole department of cops, and know Einhorn's mannerisms and personality, not to mention knowing all the police procedure that allows him to stay a cop. He’ll also need an excuse for where “she” was between going missing and coming back that won’t raise any suspicions. It's possible the film was implying that Finkle actually didn't know how to be a cop, and that's why she was making out with so many officers. So that they would cover for her. But like, come on. Kissing will only get you so far, and Finkle seems to be able to at least talk the talk every time we see them before the reveal. I personally believe it was Finkle as Einhorn who enlisted in the police academy.
For an unspecified amount of time, homicidal athlete Ray Finkle just lives as a female police lieutenant. Presumably handling all sorts of routine cases, supervising other officers, attending retirement parties, and harassing minorities. Typical cop stuff. Even though, having all the advantages of a cop and a face/body that looks nothing like his old self, he could have just gone to Dan Marino's house at any time, given a flimsy excuse about wanting to ask him some questions about something police related ("there was a shooting down the street last night. We want to get some testimony from neighbors to try and piece together when it likely happened. Mind if we go inside and talk?") and then just killed him. But whatever. I guess Finkle was waiting for the Dolphins to make it to another Super Bowl, so the loss would really hurt them. It's like that old Klingon proverb, revenge is a dish best served cold.
Eventually, the Dolphins make it to the Super Bowl. Now's the time to strike. Finkle is majorly pissed that the team assigned his old number to their mascot, Snowflake, so before taking his years-long revenge against Marino, he risks everything to steal the dolphin. Not kill the dolphin in its tank, but actually steal a big, live dolphin, and keep it alive. I get that Finkle is crazy, but if he was level-headed enough to be a cop for years and rise to the rank of lieutenant, then "mentally unstable" doesn't work as an excuse for why he's doing all of this. Maybe he didn't want to kill the dolphin in the tank because he thought making the team look for it would cause them more anguish. Okay, but why not just release it into the ocean? It's been a long time since I saw the movie, but was Finkle trying to ransom it? And if so, did he actually want the money, or was it just to keep everyone busy and distracted while he readied his real plan against Marino? He could have thrown it into a ditch somewhere and let it die; why go through the trouble of keeping it alive? It can only incriminate him, and risks him getting caught before he can kill Marino. He's got a real cushy union job right now; money shouldn't be a problem.
Also, for some reason, Finkle wears his old Super Bowl ring while pulling the dolphin heist, inadvertently leaving the only clue that Ace has to act on. Um... why was he wearing it? I understand that it's sort of symbolic, but those rings are huge and not something you want to wear while doing anything of importance with your hands, like covertly stealing a live dolphin. If he wanted to be really creepy, he could have purposefully left the whole ring behind, knowing that his disguise was perfect and he was practically impossible to catch. They would immediately start checking on everyone from the '83 season, and find Finkle has disappeared. This would be major news, Finkle's name would be everywhere. Nobody knows what happened to him or where he is, but he's pissed at the Dolphins when they have everything to lose. It would have been great psychological torture. Much better than simply taking their mascot and hoping the team would be too demoralized or superstitious to play well. But I digress.
During the investigation for the missing mascot, Roger Podacter, the team manager, must have started flirting with Einhorn and for some reason they reciprocate, and go up to Roger's apartment. I'm assuming Roger was the one who initiated things, because the stated reason he was murdered was that he discovered her penis, so I can't imagine Einhorn would start a potential sexual encounter knowing how things could go. Although this does raise the question of why she went along with him anyway. Perhaps Roger wasn't as nice of a guy as famed character-actor Troy Evans made him out to be. Maybe he contacted Einhorn with the pretense that he discovered something about the case, and they (pronouns are so fucking hard when describing Finkle/Einhorn; I'm sorry if I'm causing offense) showed up to see if Roger was getting close to the truth. Once there, he tries to assault Einhorn, and discovers “Captain Winky.” This may lead to him getting even more violent, which could have caused Einhorn to throw him from his balcony in self-defense. Again, I've had to make some assumptions. I'm assuming that he remained violent after discovering her male parts, because killing him just for knowing only makes it more likely she'll get caught. Yes, he could try to tell people she "isn't really a woman" or whatever, but who would believe him? I know, the patriarchy is awful and always ready to believe men over women, but do you really think that if this old, fat man started telling a story about how he got this smoking hot cop back to his apartment and found a dick, that anyone would believe that? He'd have to frame the encounter as consensual, meaning that whoever he's trying to tell his story to would have to believe that he has such game as to pull a hottie like that, and that somehow she has male genitals, even though, as I've previously stated, it would be pretty damn hard to be a trans cop back then. I'm sure it's hard now, but at least trans people have visibility; back then mainstream society thought of them as almost mythical creatures. Nobody would have believed him. It's not like Podacter thinking (knowing?) she's trans in any way connects her to Finkle or the Snowflake case. His whole murder is a big headscratcher.
On the subject of his murder, Ace makes the point that it couldn't have been suicide, because the glass was soundproof and the sliding door was closed, meaning he screamed when he was pushed and the killer closed the door as he left. Except, they said a neighbor heard him scream. What if the neighbor's balcony door or windows were open?
Eventually, Finkle kidnaps Marino. Instead of murdering him right away, he keeps him alive for a while, presumably to watch his team lose without him. That's dumb, but it's typical movie villain dumb, so I'll let it slide. Ace and then the cops show up, and to prove his point, Ace violently strips Finkle/Einhorn in front of everybody. Cops are surrounding them on all sides, but it takes Dan Marino pointing out to Ace that you can see Finkle's penis for everyone to notice. Even though, if you watch the shot, there's at least half a dozen cops also standing behind Einhorn that don't get grossed out until Ace turns her away from them. I guess that's less of a plot hole more just bad direction. So all the cops are grossed out because she's made out with all of them, and Snowflake also thrashes his head around, implying she smooched the dolphin? Is that what they were going for? God, this movie is dumb.
Speaking of dumb, that whole transphobic strip scene was entirely unnecessary because Dan Marino is right there, alive and conscious. The whole reason Ace "has" to strip her is to prove his wild theory that she's really Ray Finkle, otherwise she's going to blame the entire kidnapping plot on him. Why doesn't Marino just say, "Hey, everyone! Actually it was the lady who kidnapped me and the dolphin. Ace just saved my life." If he can point out that he can see her tuck, he can also point out that she is the real criminal.
They could have kept basically the same plot and just have Einhorn have been a former patient at the asylum who was working with Finkle, or Finkle was dead and she was trying to avenge him; she could have been his girlfriend or sister or any sort of relationship and the basic premise still would have worked. Making Einhorn BE Finkle causes the whole plot to collapse.
If you've managed to read this far down, you've probably been on your computer too long. Go outside. Touch grass.]]
[[WMG: This is what Ray Finkle had to have been up to]]
Not only is this movie super transphobic, but the whole plot twist of Einhorn secretly being Finkle makes the entire movie make absolutely no sense. This is less of a WMG and more just trying to breakdown exactly what the movie claims happened:
Ray Finkle misses a field goal at the 1983 Super Bowl, costing the Miami Dolphins the championship. He and his family are endlessly harassed about this, to the point where it is impossible to live normal lives. Moving away from Florida seems not to occur to them. Instead of blaming this behavior on the mean-spirited mercurial Dolphins fans that are actually causing him harm, or on the team management for (seemingly?) cutting him after a pretty good season because of one missed kick, he blames Dan Marino for supposedly placing the ball incorrectly. He has an unspecified breakdown of some sort and is institutionalized, not because he can't handle the criminal harassment, but because he has severe homicidal tendencies towards Dan Marino.
What happens next is incredibly unclear. Finkle's treatment at the mental hospital doesn't appear to do him any good. Eventually he reads a newspaper article about a missing hiker named Lois Einhorn. I have to assume at this point that the real Einhorn was NOT a police officer, as I don't believe that was mentioned in the news article that Ace finds, and you'd think a story about a missing cop would be much more attention-getting than just a random missing person. Finkle escapes with a plan seemingly consisting of "Take the identity of Lois Einhorn... and wait."
If the real Einhorn wasn't a cop yet, that means that Finkle 1) somehow got a lot of money, so he could 2) pay for a lot of cosmetic surgery. Yes, it's possible he got estrogen by other means than a doctor, and that the breasts are just growth and not implants, but that old picture of Finkle in the Dolphins' lineup is actually a picture of actress Sean Young, wearing a fake mustache, with beard stubble painted on, and most notably, stuffing in her cheeks to give her a larger jaw. At the very least, Finkle has some facial feminization surgery. Also, as a sidenote, leaving aside the face work, if we assume that (perhaps) the reason Finkle keeps his male genitals is because he can't actually find a shady doctor to fix him up, and that all the changes are purely due to shooting up an ocean of female hormones, wouldn't it be next to impossible for Finkle to get erections? I'm a cis guy, I don't know for sure what HRT does to your penis, but Ace clearly feels a hard-on.
Anyway, after Finkle gets himself fully feminized (aside from "Captain Winky"), he then 3) joins the police academy and slowly rises through the ranks into a position of power. All this time, apparently never sharing a locker room with other female officers, or taking a physical exam, or the department even doing a cursory background check on their recruit. Sure, he can make himself look like a woman (probably not like that actual Lois Einhorn, but we'll get to that), and he can use a dead woman's name, but if they looked into things at all, they would know that the real Lois Einhorn disappeared on a hiking trip years ago.
Now, if the real Einhorn was ALREADY a cop, that means that Finkle still has to do steps 1 and 2 from above, but also the surgery has to make him look identical to a person that lots of people will recognize. He'll have to look just like Einhorn to a whole department of cops, and know Einhorn's mannerisms and personality, not to mention knowing all the police procedure that allows him to stay a cop. He’ll also need an excuse for where “she” was between going missing and coming back that won’t raise any suspicions. It's possible the film was implying that Finkle actually didn't know how to be a cop, and that's why she was making out with so many officers. So that they would cover for her. But like, come on. Kissing will only get you so far, and Finkle seems to be able to at least talk the talk every time we see them before the reveal. I personally believe it was Finkle as Einhorn who enlisted in the police academy.
For an unspecified amount of time, homicidal athlete Ray Finkle just lives as a female police lieutenant. Presumably handling all sorts of routine cases, supervising other officers, attending retirement parties, and harassing minorities. Typical cop stuff. Even though, having all the advantages of a cop and a face/body that looks nothing like his old self, he could have just gone to Dan Marino's house at any time, given a flimsy excuse about wanting to ask him some questions about something police related ("there was a shooting down the street last night. We want to get some testimony from neighbors to try and piece together when it likely happened. Mind if we go inside and talk?") and then just killed him. But whatever. I guess Finkle was waiting for the Dolphins to make it to another Super Bowl, so the loss would really hurt them. It's like that old Klingon proverb, revenge is a dish best served cold.
Eventually, the Dolphins make it to the Super Bowl. Now's the time to strike. Finkle is majorly pissed that the team assigned his old number to their mascot, Snowflake, so before taking his years-long revenge against Marino, he risks everything to steal the dolphin. Not kill the dolphin in its tank, but actually steal a big, live dolphin, and keep it alive. I get that Finkle is crazy, but if he was level-headed enough to be a cop for years and rise to the rank of lieutenant, then "mentally unstable" doesn't work as an excuse for why he's doing all of this. Maybe he didn't want to kill the dolphin in the tank because he thought making the team look for it would cause them more anguish. Okay, but why not just release it into the ocean? It's been a long time since I saw the movie, but was Finkle trying to ransom it? And if so, did he actually want the money, or was it just to keep everyone busy and distracted while he readied his real plan against Marino? He could have thrown it into a ditch somewhere and let it die; why go through the trouble of keeping it alive? It can only incriminate him, and risks him getting caught before he can kill Marino. He's got a real cushy union job right now; money shouldn't be a problem.
Also, for some reason, Finkle wears his old Super Bowl ring while pulling the dolphin heist, inadvertently leaving the only clue that Ace has to act on. Um... why was he wearing it? I understand that it's sort of symbolic, but those rings are huge and not something you want to wear while doing anything of importance with your hands, like covertly stealing a live dolphin. If he wanted to be really creepy, he could have purposefully left the whole ring behind, knowing that his disguise was perfect and he was practically impossible to catch. They would immediately start checking on everyone from the '83 season, and find Finkle has disappeared. This would be major news, Finkle's name would be everywhere. Nobody knows what happened to him or where he is, but he's pissed at the Dolphins when they have everything to lose. It would have been great psychological torture. Much better than simply taking their mascot and hoping the team would be too demoralized or superstitious to play well. But I digress.
During the investigation for the missing mascot, Roger Podacter, the team manager, must have started flirting with Einhorn and for some reason they reciprocate, and go up to Roger's apartment. I'm assuming Roger was the one who initiated things, because the stated reason he was murdered was that he discovered her penis, so I can't imagine Einhorn would start a potential sexual encounter knowing how things could go. Although this does raise the question of why she went along with him anyway. Perhaps Roger wasn't as nice of a guy as famed character-actor Troy Evans made him out to be. Maybe he contacted Einhorn with the pretense that he discovered something about the case, and they (pronouns are so fucking hard when describing Finkle/Einhorn; I'm sorry if I'm causing offense) showed up to see if Roger was getting close to the truth. Once there, he tries to assault Einhorn, and discovers “Captain Winky.” This may lead to him getting even more violent, which could have caused Einhorn to throw him from his balcony in self-defense. Again, I've had to make some assumptions. I'm assuming that he remained violent after discovering her male parts, because killing him just for knowing only makes it more likely she'll get caught. Yes, he could try to tell people she "isn't really a woman" or whatever, but who would believe him? I know, the patriarchy is awful and always ready to believe men over women, but do you really think that if this old, fat man started telling a story about how he got this smoking hot cop back to his apartment and found a dick, that anyone would believe that? He'd have to frame the encounter as consensual, meaning that whoever he's trying to tell his story to would have to believe that he has such game as to pull a hottie like that, and that somehow she has male genitals, even though, as I've previously stated, it would be pretty damn hard to be a trans cop back then. I'm sure it's hard now, but at least trans people have visibility; back then mainstream society thought of them as almost mythical creatures. Nobody would have believed him. It's not like Podacter thinking (knowing?) she's trans in any way connects her to Finkle or the Snowflake case. His whole murder is a big headscratcher.
On the subject of his murder, Ace makes the point that it couldn't have been suicide, because the glass was soundproof and the sliding door was closed, meaning he screamed when he was pushed and the killer closed the door as he left. Except, they said a neighbor heard him scream. What if the neighbor's balcony door or windows were open?
Eventually, Finkle kidnaps Marino. Instead of murdering him right away, he keeps him alive for a while, presumably to watch his team lose without him. That's dumb, but it's typical movie villain dumb, so I'll let it slide. Ace and then the cops show up, and to prove his point, Ace violently strips Finkle/Einhorn in front of everybody. Cops are surrounding them on all sides, but it takes Dan Marino pointing out to Ace that you can see Finkle's penis for everyone to notice. Even though, if you watch the shot, there's at least half a dozen cops also standing behind Einhorn that don't get grossed out until Ace turns her away from them. I guess that's less of a plot hole more just bad direction. So all the cops are grossed out because she's made out with all of them, and Snowflake also thrashes his head around, implying she smooched the dolphin? Is that what they were going for? God, this movie is dumb.
Speaking of dumb, that whole transphobic strip scene was entirely unnecessary because Dan Marino is right there, alive and conscious. The whole reason Ace "has" to strip her is to prove his wild theory that she's really Ray Finkle, otherwise she's going to blame the entire kidnapping plot on him. Why doesn't Marino just say, "Hey, everyone! Actually it was the lady who kidnapped me and the dolphin. Ace just saved my life." If he can point out that he can see her tuck, he can also point out that she is the real criminal.
They could have kept basically the same plot and just have Einhorn have been a former patient at the asylum who was working with Finkle, or Finkle was dead and she was trying to avenge him; she could have been his girlfriend or sister or any sort of relationship and the basic premise still would have worked. Making Einhorn BE Finkle causes the whole plot to collapse.
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If the real Einhorn wasn't a cop yet, that means that Finkle 1) somehow got a lot of money, so he could 2) pay for a lot of cosmetic surgery. Yes, it's possible he got estrogen by other means than a doctor, and that the breasts are just growth and not implants, but that old picture of Finkle in the Dolphins' lineup is actually a picture of actress Sean Young, wearing a fake mustache, with beard stubble painted on, and most notably, stuffing in her cheeks to give her a larger jaw. At the very least, Finkle has some facial feminization surgery. Also, as a sidenote, leaving aside the face work, if we assume that (perhaps) the reason Finkle keeps his male bits is because he can't actually find a shady doctor to fix him up, and that all the changes are purely due to shooting up an ocean of female hormones, wouldn't it be next to impossible for Finkle to get erections? I'm a cis guy, I don't know for sure what HRT does to your downstairs, but Ace clearly feels a hard-on.
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If the real Einhorn wasn't a cop yet, that means that Finkle 1) somehow got a lot of money, so he could 2) pay for a lot of cosmetic surgery. Yes, it's possible he got estrogen by other means than a doctor, and that the breasts are just growth and not implants, but that old picture of Finkle in the Dolphins' lineup is actually a picture of actress Sean Young, wearing a fake mustache, with beard stubble painted on, and most notably, stuffing in her cheeks to give her a larger jaw. At the very least, Finkle has some facial feminization surgery. Also, as a sidenote, leaving aside the face work, if we assume that (perhaps) the reason Finkle keeps his male bits genitals is because he can't actually find a shady doctor to fix him up, and that all the changes are purely due to shooting up an ocean of female hormones, wouldn't it be next to impossible for Finkle to get erections? I'm a cis guy, I don't know for sure what HRT does to your downstairs, penis, but Ace clearly feels a hard-on.
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During the investigation for the missing mascot, Roger Podacter, the team manager, must have started flirting with Einhorn and for some reason they reciprocate, and go up to Roger's apartment. I'm assuming Roger was the one who initiated things, because the stated reason he was murdered was that he discovered she had male genitals, so I can't imagine Einhorn would start a potential sexual encounter knowing how things could go. Although this does raise the question of why she went along with him anyway. Perhaps Roger wasn't as nice of a guy as famed character-actor Troy Evans made him out to be. Maybe he contacted Einhorn with the pretense that he discovered something about the case, and they (pronouns are so fucking hard when describing Finkle/Einhorn; I'm sorry if I'm causing offense) showed up to see if Roger was getting close to the truth. Once there, he tries to assault Einhorn, and discovers “Captain Winky.” This may lead to him getting even more violent, which could have caused Einhorn to throw him from his balcony in self-defense. Again, I've had to make some assumptions. I'm assuming that he remained violent after discovering her male parts, because killing him just for knowing only makes it more likely she'll get caught. Yes, he could try to tell people she "isn't really a woman" or whatever, but who would believe him? I know, the patriarchy is awful and always ready to believe men over women, but do you really think that if this old, fat man started telling a story about how he got this smoking hot cop back to his apartment and found a schlong, that anyone would believe that? He'd have to frame the encounter as consensual, meaning that whoever he's trying to tell his story to would have to believe that he has such game as to pull a hottie like that, and that somehow she has male genitals, even though, as I've previously stated, it would be pretty damn hard to be a trans cop back then. I'm sure it's hard now, but at least trans people have visibility; back then mainstream society thought of them as almost mythical creatures. Nobody would have believed him.
On the note of his murder, Ace makes the point that it couldn't have been suicide, because the glass was soundproof and the sliding door was closed, meaning he screamed when he was pushed and the killer closed the door as he left. Except, they said a neighbor heard him scream. What if the neighbor's balcony door or windows were open?
Eventually, Finkle kidnaps Marino. Instead of murdering him right away, he keeps him alive for a while, presumably to watch his team lose without him. That's dumb, but it's typical movie villain dumb, so I'll let it slide. Ace and then the cops show up, and to prove his point, Ace violently strips Finkle/Einhorn in front of everybody. Cops are surrounding them on all sides, but it takes Dan Marino pointing out to Ace that you can see Finkle's man bits for everyone to notice. Even though, if you watch the shot, there's at least half a dozen cops also standing behind Einhorn that don't get grossed out until Ace turns her away from them. I guess that's less of a plot hole more just bad direction. So all the cops are grossed out because she's made out with all of them, and Snowflake also thrashes his head around, implying she Frenched the dolphin? Is that what they were going for? God, this movie is dumb.
On the note of his murder, Ace makes the point that it couldn't have been suicide, because the glass was soundproof and the sliding door was closed, meaning he screamed when he was pushed and the killer closed the door as he left. Except, they said a neighbor heard him scream. What if the neighbor's balcony door or windows were open?
Eventually, Finkle kidnaps Marino. Instead of murdering him right away, he keeps him alive for a while, presumably to watch his team lose without him. That's dumb, but it's typical movie villain dumb, so I'll let it slide. Ace and then the cops show up, and to prove his point, Ace violently strips Finkle/Einhorn in front of everybody. Cops are surrounding them on all sides, but it takes Dan Marino pointing out to Ace that you can see Finkle's man bits for everyone to notice. Even though, if you watch the shot, there's at least half a dozen cops also standing behind Einhorn that don't get grossed out until Ace turns her away from them. I guess that's less of a plot hole more just bad direction. So all the cops are grossed out because she's made out with all of them, and Snowflake also thrashes his head around, implying she Frenched the dolphin? Is that what they were going for? God, this movie is dumb.
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During the investigation for the missing mascot, Roger Podacter, the team manager, must have started flirting with Einhorn and for some reason they reciprocate, and go up to Roger's apartment. I'm assuming Roger was the one who initiated things, because the stated reason he was murdered was that he discovered she had male genitals, her penis, so I can't imagine Einhorn would start a potential sexual encounter knowing how things could go. Although this does raise the question of why she went along with him anyway. Perhaps Roger wasn't as nice of a guy as famed character-actor Troy Evans made him out to be. Maybe he contacted Einhorn with the pretense that he discovered something about the case, and they (pronouns are so fucking hard when describing Finkle/Einhorn; I'm sorry if I'm causing offense) showed up to see if Roger was getting close to the truth. Once there, he tries to assault Einhorn, and discovers “Captain Winky.” This may lead to him getting even more violent, which could have caused Einhorn to throw him from his balcony in self-defense. Again, I've had to make some assumptions. I'm assuming that he remained violent after discovering her male parts, because killing him just for knowing only makes it more likely she'll get caught. Yes, he could try to tell people she "isn't really a woman" or whatever, but who would believe him? I know, the patriarchy is awful and always ready to believe men over women, but do you really think that if this old, fat man started telling a story about how he got this smoking hot cop back to his apartment and found a schlong, dick, that anyone would believe that? He'd have to frame the encounter as consensual, meaning that whoever he's trying to tell his story to would have to believe that he has such game as to pull a hottie like that, and that somehow she has male genitals, even though, as I've previously stated, it would be pretty damn hard to be a trans cop back then. I'm sure it's hard now, but at least trans people have visibility; back then mainstream society thought of them as almost mythical creatures. Nobody would have believed him.
him. It's not like Podacter thinking (knowing?) she's trans in any way connects her to Finkle or the Snowflake case. His whole murder is a big headscratcher.
On thenote subject of his murder, Ace makes the point that it couldn't have been suicide, because the glass was soundproof and the sliding door was closed, meaning he screamed when he was pushed and the killer closed the door as he left. Except, they said a neighbor heard him scream. What if the neighbor's balcony door or windows were open?
Eventually, Finkle kidnaps Marino. Instead of murdering him right away, he keeps him alive for a while, presumably to watch his team lose without him. That's dumb, but it's typical movie villain dumb, so I'll let it slide. Ace and then the cops show up, and to prove his point, Ace violently strips Finkle/Einhorn in front of everybody. Cops are surrounding them on all sides, but it takes Dan Marino pointing out to Ace that you can see Finkle'sman bits penis for everyone to notice. Even though, if you watch the shot, there's at least half a dozen cops also standing behind Einhorn that don't get grossed out until Ace turns her away from them. I guess that's less of a plot hole more just bad direction. So all the cops are grossed out because she's made out with all of them, and Snowflake also thrashes his head around, implying she Frenched smooched the dolphin? Is that what they were going for? God, this movie is dumb.
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Eventually, Finkle kidnaps Marino. Instead of murdering him right away, he keeps him alive for a while, presumably to watch his team lose without him. That's dumb, but it's typical movie villain dumb, so I'll let it slide. Ace and then the cops show up, and to prove his point, Ace violently strips Finkle/Einhorn in front of everybody. Cops are surrounding them on all sides, but it takes Dan Marino pointing out to Ace that you can see Finkle's
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And while I'm never truly forgiven Jim Carey for writing this (and being an anti-vax weirdo), one person I hold absolutely zero grudge against is Sean Young. In case I wasn't already in the running for longest youtube comment ever, let me clear up some misconceptions about her. Her career started out white hot with Blade Runner and she had a decent run of flicks in the 80s. She was originally cast as Bruce Wayne's love interest in Tim Burton's Batman, but broke her leg shooting a horse riding scene and had to be replaced by Kim Basinger. Tim Burton promised her a role in his next movie. When Batman Returns started preproduction, she infamously showed up to the studio to meet with Burton wearing her own Catwoman costume. He refused to let her onto the lot, and stories spread that she was nuts. While it probably would have been wise to have called first, she was not crazy. From her perspective, the role was already hers, and she was jokingly wearing the costume to break the ice and show that she was ready and eager. Tim Burton didn't even have the decency to talk to her in person and say he was casting someone else. This did big harm to her reputation, which was absolutely buried when her ex-boyfriend, and noted bigot, James Woods starting telling the tabloids about how unstable she was and how she stalked him and a bunch of other stuff. Years later, witnesses would come forward and admit that actually HE was the violent stalker, and she was just trying to get away from him. And for that he harassed her and made everyone think she was unstable and impossible to work with. She had to take any role she could, and even though this is disgusting anti-trans propaganda, she played it damn well. She was believable as a hard-ass cop, as a femme fatale, and as a deranged killer. Sean Young deserved so much better.
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[[WMG: This is what Ray Finkle had to have been up to]]
Not only is this movie super transphobic, but the whole plot twist of Einhorn secretly being Finkle makes the entire movie make absolutely no sense. Let's try to break down what the movie claims happened:
Ray Finkle misses a field goal at the 1983 Super Bowl, costing the Miami Dolphins the championship. He and his family are endlessly harassed about this, to the point where it is impossible to live normal lives. Moving away from Florida seems not to occur to them. Instead of blaming this behavior on the mean-spirited mercurial Dolphins fans that are actually causing him harm, or on the team management for (seemingly?) cutting him after a pretty good season because of one missed kick, he blames Dan Marino for supposedly placing the ball incorrectly. He has an unspecified breakdown of some sort and is institutionalized, not because he can't handle the criminal harassment, but because he has severe homicidal tendencies towards Dan Marino.
What happens next is incredibly unclear. Finkle's treatment at the mental hospital doesn't appear to do him any good. Eventually he reads a newspaper article about a missing hiker named Lois Einhorn. I have to assume at this point that the real Einhorn was NOT a police officer, as I don't believe that was mentioned in the news article that Ace finds, and you'd think a story about a missing cop would be much more attention-getting than just a random missing person. Finkle escapes with a plan seemingly consisting of "Take the identity of Lois Einhorn... and wait."
If the real Einhorn wasn't a cop yet, that means that Finkle 1) somehow got a lot of money, so he could 2) pay for a lot of cosmetic surgery. Yes, it's possible he got estrogen by other means than a doctor, and that the breasts are just growth and not implants, but that old picture of Finkle in the Dolphins' lineup is actually a picture of actress Sean Young, wearing a fake mustache, with beard stubble painted on, and most notably, stuffing in her cheeks to give her a larger jaw. At the very least, Finkle has some facial feminization surgery. Also, as a sidenote, leaving aside the face work, if we assume that (perhaps) the reason Finkle keeps his male bits is because he can't actually find a shady doctor to fix him up, and that all the changes are purely due to shooting up an ocean of female hormones, wouldn't it be next to impossible for Finkle to get erections? I'm a cis guy, I don't know for sure what HRT does to your downstairs, but Ace clearly feels a hard-on.
Anyway, after Finkle gets himself fully feminized (aside from "Captain Winky"), he then 3) joins the police academy and slowly rises through the ranks into a position of power. All this time, apparently never sharing a locker room with other female officers, or taking a physical exam, or the department even doing a cursory background check on their recruit. Sure, he can make himself look like a woman (probably not like that actual Lois Einhorn, but we'll get to that), and he can use a dead woman's name, but if they looked into things at all, they would know that the real Lois Einhorn disappeared on a hiking trip years ago.
Now, if the real Einhorn was ALREADY a cop, that means that Finkle still has to do steps 1 and 2 from above, but also the surgery has to make him look identical to a person that lots of people will recognize. He'll have to look just like Einhorn to a whole department of cops, and know Einhorn's mannerisms and personality, not to mention knowing all the police procedure that allows him to stay a cop. He’ll also need an excuse for where “she” was between going missing and coming back that won’t raise any suspicions. It's possible the film was implying that Finkle actually didn't know how to be a cop, and that's why she was making out with so many officers. So that they would cover for her. But like, come on. Kissing will only get you so far, and Finkle seems to be able to at least talk the talk every time we see them before the reveal. I personally believe it was Finkle as Einhorn who enlisted in the police academy.
For an unspecified amount of time, homicidal athlete Ray Finkle just lives as a female police lieutenant. Presumably handling all sorts of routine cases, supervising other officers, attending retirement parties, and harassing minorities. Typical cop stuff. Even though, having all the advantages of a cop and a face/body that looks nothing like his old self, he could have just gone to Dan Marino's house at any time, given a flimsy excuse about wanting to ask him some questions about something police related ("there was a shooting down the street last night. We want to get some testimony from neighbors to try and piece together when it likely happened. Mind if we go inside and talk?") and then just killed him. But whatever. I guess Finkle was waiting for the Dolphins to make it to another Super Bowl, so the loss would really hurt them. It's like that old Klingon proverb, revenge is a dish best served cold.
Eventually, the Dolphins make it to the Super Bowl. Now's the time to strike. Finkle is majorly pissed that the team assigned his old number to their mascot, Snowflake, so before taking his years-long revenge against Marino, he risks everything to steal the dolphin. Not kill the dolphin in its tank, but actually steal a big, live dolphin, and keep it alive. I get that Finkle is crazy, but if he was level-headed enough to be a cop for years and rise to the rank of lieutenant, then "mentally unstable" doesn't work as an excuse for why he's doing all of this. Maybe he didn't want to kill the dolphin in the tank because he thought making the team look for it would cause them more anguish. Okay, but why not just release it into the ocean? It's been a long time since I saw the movie, but was Finkle trying to ransom it? And if so, did he actually want the money, or was it just to keep everyone busy and distracted while he readied his real plan against Marino? He could have thrown it into a ditch somewhere and let it die; why go through the trouble of keeping it alive? It can only incriminate him, and risks him getting caught before he can kill Marino. He's got a real cushy union job right now; money shouldn't be a problem.
Also, for some reason, Finkle wears his old Super Bowl ring while pulling the dolphin heist, inadvertently leaving the only clue that Ace has to act on. Um... why was he wearing it? I understand that it's sort of symbolic, but those rings are huge and not something you want to wear while doing anything of importance with your hands, like covertly stealing a live dolphin. If he wanted to be really creepy, he could have purposefully left the whole ring behind, knowing that his disguise was perfect and he was practically impossible to catch. They would immediately start checking on everyone from the '83 season, and find Finkle has disappeared. This would be major news, Finkle's name would be everywhere. Nobody knows what happened to him or where he is, but he's pissed at the Dolphins when they have everything to lose. It would have been great psychological torture. Much better than simply taking their mascot and hoping the team would be too demoralized or superstitious to play well. But I digress.
During the investigation for the missing mascot, Roger Podacter, the team manager, must have started flirting with Einhorn and for some reason they reciprocate, and go up to Roger's apartment. I'm assuming Roger was the one who initiated things, because the stated reason he was murdered was that he discovered she had male genitals, so I can't imagine Einhorn would start a potential sexual encounter knowing how things could go. Although this does raise the question of why she went along with him anyway. Perhaps Roger wasn't as nice of a guy as famed character-actor Troy Evans made him out to be. Maybe he contacted Einhorn with the pretense that he discovered something about the case, and they (pronouns are so fucking hard when describing Finkle/Einhorn; I'm sorry if I'm causing offense) showed up to see if Roger was getting close to the truth. Once there, he tries to assault Einhorn, and discovers “Captain Winky.” This may lead to him getting even more violent, which could have caused Einhorn to throw him from his balcony in self-defense. Again, I've had to make some assumptions. I'm assuming that he remained violent after discovering her male parts, because killing him just for knowing only makes it more likely she'll get caught. Yes, he could try to tell people she "isn't really a woman" or whatever, but who would believe him? I know, the patriarchy is awful and always ready to believe men over women, but do you really think that if this old, fat man started telling a story about how he got this smoking hot cop back to his apartment and found a schlong, that anyone would believe that? He'd have to frame the encounter as consensual, meaning that whoever he's trying to tell his story to would have to believe that he has such game as to pull a hottie like that, and that somehow she has male genitals, even though, as I've previously stated, it would be pretty damn hard to be a trans cop back then. I'm sure it's hard now, but at least trans people have visibility; back then mainstream society thought of them as almost mythical creatures. Nobody would have believed him.
On the note of his murder, Ace makes the point that it couldn't have been suicide, because the glass was soundproof and the sliding door was closed, meaning he screamed when he was pushed and the killer closed the door as he left. Except, they said a neighbor heard him scream. What if the neighbor's balcony door or windows were open?
Eventually, Finkle kidnaps Marino. Instead of murdering him right away, he keeps him alive for a while, presumably to watch his team lose without him. That's dumb, but it's typical movie villain dumb, so I'll let it slide. Ace and then the cops show up, and to prove his point, Ace violently strips Finkle/Einhorn in front of everybody. Cops are surrounding them on all sides, but it takes Dan Marino pointing out to Ace that you can see Finkle's man bits for everyone to notice. Even though, if you watch the shot, there's at least half a dozen cops also standing behind Einhorn that don't get grossed out until Ace turns her away from them. I guess that's less of a plot hole more just bad direction. So all the cops are grossed out because she's made out with all of them, and Snowflake also thrashes his head around, implying she Frenched the dolphin? Is that what they were going for? God, this movie is dumb.
Speaking of dumb, that whole transphobic strip scene was entirely unnecessary because Dan Marino is right there, alive and conscious. The whole reason Ace "has" to strip her is to prove his wild theory that she's really Ray Finkle, otherwise she's going to blame the entire kidnapping plot on him. Why doesn't Marino just say, "Hey, everyone! Actually it was the lady who kidnapped me and the dolphin. Ace just saved my life." If he can point out that he can see her tuck, he can also point out that she is the real criminal.
They could have kept basically the same plot and just have Einhorn have been a former patient at the asylum who was working with Finkle, or Finkle was dead and she was trying to avenge him; she could have been his girlfriend or sister or any sort of relationship and the basic premise still would have worked. Making Einhorn BE Finkle causes the whole plot to collapse.
And while I'm never truly forgiven Jim Carey for writing this (and being an anti-vax weirdo), one person I hold absolutely zero grudge against is Sean Young. In case I wasn't already in the running for longest youtube comment ever, let me clear up some misconceptions about her. Her career started out white hot with Blade Runner and she had a decent run of flicks in the 80s. She was originally cast as Bruce Wayne's love interest in Tim Burton's Batman, but broke her leg shooting a horse riding scene and had to be replaced by Kim Basinger. Tim Burton promised her a role in his next movie. When Batman Returns started preproduction, she infamously showed up to the studio to meet with Burton wearing her own Catwoman costume. He refused to let her onto the lot, and stories spread that she was nuts. While it probably would have been wise to have called first, she was not crazy. From her perspective, the role was already hers, and she was jokingly wearing the costume to break the ice and show that she was ready and eager. Tim Burton didn't even have the decency to talk to her in person and say he was casting someone else. This did big harm to her reputation, which was absolutely buried when her ex-boyfriend, and noted bigot, James Woods starting telling the tabloids about how unstable she was and how she stalked him and a bunch of other stuff. Years later, witnesses would come forward and admit that actually HE was the violent stalker, and she was just trying to get away from him. And for that he harassed her and made everyone think she was unstable and impossible to work with. She had to take any role she could, and even though this is disgusting anti-trans propaganda, she played it damn well. She was believable as a hard-ass cop, as a femme fatale, and as a deranged killer. Sean Young deserved so much better.
If you've managed to read this far down, you've probably been on your computer too long. Go outside. Touch grass.
[[WMG: This is what Ray Finkle had to have been up to]]
Not only is this movie super transphobic, but the whole plot twist of Einhorn secretly being Finkle makes the entire movie make absolutely no sense. Let's try to break down what the movie claims happened:
Ray Finkle misses a field goal at the 1983 Super Bowl, costing the Miami Dolphins the championship. He and his family are endlessly harassed about this, to the point where it is impossible to live normal lives. Moving away from Florida seems not to occur to them. Instead of blaming this behavior on the mean-spirited mercurial Dolphins fans that are actually causing him harm, or on the team management for (seemingly?) cutting him after a pretty good season because of one missed kick, he blames Dan Marino for supposedly placing the ball incorrectly. He has an unspecified breakdown of some sort and is institutionalized, not because he can't handle the criminal harassment, but because he has severe homicidal tendencies towards Dan Marino.
What happens next is incredibly unclear. Finkle's treatment at the mental hospital doesn't appear to do him any good. Eventually he reads a newspaper article about a missing hiker named Lois Einhorn. I have to assume at this point that the real Einhorn was NOT a police officer, as I don't believe that was mentioned in the news article that Ace finds, and you'd think a story about a missing cop would be much more attention-getting than just a random missing person. Finkle escapes with a plan seemingly consisting of "Take the identity of Lois Einhorn... and wait."
If the real Einhorn wasn't a cop yet, that means that Finkle 1) somehow got a lot of money, so he could 2) pay for a lot of cosmetic surgery. Yes, it's possible he got estrogen by other means than a doctor, and that the breasts are just growth and not implants, but that old picture of Finkle in the Dolphins' lineup is actually a picture of actress Sean Young, wearing a fake mustache, with beard stubble painted on, and most notably, stuffing in her cheeks to give her a larger jaw. At the very least, Finkle has some facial feminization surgery. Also, as a sidenote, leaving aside the face work, if we assume that (perhaps) the reason Finkle keeps his male bits is because he can't actually find a shady doctor to fix him up, and that all the changes are purely due to shooting up an ocean of female hormones, wouldn't it be next to impossible for Finkle to get erections? I'm a cis guy, I don't know for sure what HRT does to your downstairs, but Ace clearly feels a hard-on.
Anyway, after Finkle gets himself fully feminized (aside from "Captain Winky"), he then 3) joins the police academy and slowly rises through the ranks into a position of power. All this time, apparently never sharing a locker room with other female officers, or taking a physical exam, or the department even doing a cursory background check on their recruit. Sure, he can make himself look like a woman (probably not like that actual Lois Einhorn, but we'll get to that), and he can use a dead woman's name, but if they looked into things at all, they would know that the real Lois Einhorn disappeared on a hiking trip years ago.
Now, if the real Einhorn was ALREADY a cop, that means that Finkle still has to do steps 1 and 2 from above, but also the surgery has to make him look identical to a person that lots of people will recognize. He'll have to look just like Einhorn to a whole department of cops, and know Einhorn's mannerisms and personality, not to mention knowing all the police procedure that allows him to stay a cop. He’ll also need an excuse for where “she” was between going missing and coming back that won’t raise any suspicions. It's possible the film was implying that Finkle actually didn't know how to be a cop, and that's why she was making out with so many officers. So that they would cover for her. But like, come on. Kissing will only get you so far, and Finkle seems to be able to at least talk the talk every time we see them before the reveal. I personally believe it was Finkle as Einhorn who enlisted in the police academy.
For an unspecified amount of time, homicidal athlete Ray Finkle just lives as a female police lieutenant. Presumably handling all sorts of routine cases, supervising other officers, attending retirement parties, and harassing minorities. Typical cop stuff. Even though, having all the advantages of a cop and a face/body that looks nothing like his old self, he could have just gone to Dan Marino's house at any time, given a flimsy excuse about wanting to ask him some questions about something police related ("there was a shooting down the street last night. We want to get some testimony from neighbors to try and piece together when it likely happened. Mind if we go inside and talk?") and then just killed him. But whatever. I guess Finkle was waiting for the Dolphins to make it to another Super Bowl, so the loss would really hurt them. It's like that old Klingon proverb, revenge is a dish best served cold.
Eventually, the Dolphins make it to the Super Bowl. Now's the time to strike. Finkle is majorly pissed that the team assigned his old number to their mascot, Snowflake, so before taking his years-long revenge against Marino, he risks everything to steal the dolphin. Not kill the dolphin in its tank, but actually steal a big, live dolphin, and keep it alive. I get that Finkle is crazy, but if he was level-headed enough to be a cop for years and rise to the rank of lieutenant, then "mentally unstable" doesn't work as an excuse for why he's doing all of this. Maybe he didn't want to kill the dolphin in the tank because he thought making the team look for it would cause them more anguish. Okay, but why not just release it into the ocean? It's been a long time since I saw the movie, but was Finkle trying to ransom it? And if so, did he actually want the money, or was it just to keep everyone busy and distracted while he readied his real plan against Marino? He could have thrown it into a ditch somewhere and let it die; why go through the trouble of keeping it alive? It can only incriminate him, and risks him getting caught before he can kill Marino. He's got a real cushy union job right now; money shouldn't be a problem.
Also, for some reason, Finkle wears his old Super Bowl ring while pulling the dolphin heist, inadvertently leaving the only clue that Ace has to act on. Um... why was he wearing it? I understand that it's sort of symbolic, but those rings are huge and not something you want to wear while doing anything of importance with your hands, like covertly stealing a live dolphin. If he wanted to be really creepy, he could have purposefully left the whole ring behind, knowing that his disguise was perfect and he was practically impossible to catch. They would immediately start checking on everyone from the '83 season, and find Finkle has disappeared. This would be major news, Finkle's name would be everywhere. Nobody knows what happened to him or where he is, but he's pissed at the Dolphins when they have everything to lose. It would have been great psychological torture. Much better than simply taking their mascot and hoping the team would be too demoralized or superstitious to play well. But I digress.
During the investigation for the missing mascot, Roger Podacter, the team manager, must have started flirting with Einhorn and for some reason they reciprocate, and go up to Roger's apartment. I'm assuming Roger was the one who initiated things, because the stated reason he was murdered was that he discovered she had male genitals, so I can't imagine Einhorn would start a potential sexual encounter knowing how things could go. Although this does raise the question of why she went along with him anyway. Perhaps Roger wasn't as nice of a guy as famed character-actor Troy Evans made him out to be. Maybe he contacted Einhorn with the pretense that he discovered something about the case, and they (pronouns are so fucking hard when describing Finkle/Einhorn; I'm sorry if I'm causing offense) showed up to see if Roger was getting close to the truth. Once there, he tries to assault Einhorn, and discovers “Captain Winky.” This may lead to him getting even more violent, which could have caused Einhorn to throw him from his balcony in self-defense. Again, I've had to make some assumptions. I'm assuming that he remained violent after discovering her male parts, because killing him just for knowing only makes it more likely she'll get caught. Yes, he could try to tell people she "isn't really a woman" or whatever, but who would believe him? I know, the patriarchy is awful and always ready to believe men over women, but do you really think that if this old, fat man started telling a story about how he got this smoking hot cop back to his apartment and found a schlong, that anyone would believe that? He'd have to frame the encounter as consensual, meaning that whoever he's trying to tell his story to would have to believe that he has such game as to pull a hottie like that, and that somehow she has male genitals, even though, as I've previously stated, it would be pretty damn hard to be a trans cop back then. I'm sure it's hard now, but at least trans people have visibility; back then mainstream society thought of them as almost mythical creatures. Nobody would have believed him.
On the note of his murder, Ace makes the point that it couldn't have been suicide, because the glass was soundproof and the sliding door was closed, meaning he screamed when he was pushed and the killer closed the door as he left. Except, they said a neighbor heard him scream. What if the neighbor's balcony door or windows were open?
Eventually, Finkle kidnaps Marino. Instead of murdering him right away, he keeps him alive for a while, presumably to watch his team lose without him. That's dumb, but it's typical movie villain dumb, so I'll let it slide. Ace and then the cops show up, and to prove his point, Ace violently strips Finkle/Einhorn in front of everybody. Cops are surrounding them on all sides, but it takes Dan Marino pointing out to Ace that you can see Finkle's man bits for everyone to notice. Even though, if you watch the shot, there's at least half a dozen cops also standing behind Einhorn that don't get grossed out until Ace turns her away from them. I guess that's less of a plot hole more just bad direction. So all the cops are grossed out because she's made out with all of them, and Snowflake also thrashes his head around, implying she Frenched the dolphin? Is that what they were going for? God, this movie is dumb.
Speaking of dumb, that whole transphobic strip scene was entirely unnecessary because Dan Marino is right there, alive and conscious. The whole reason Ace "has" to strip her is to prove his wild theory that she's really Ray Finkle, otherwise she's going to blame the entire kidnapping plot on him. Why doesn't Marino just say, "Hey, everyone! Actually it was the lady who kidnapped me and the dolphin. Ace just saved my life." If he can point out that he can see her tuck, he can also point out that she is the real criminal.
They could have kept basically the same plot and just have Einhorn have been a former patient at the asylum who was working with Finkle, or Finkle was dead and she was trying to avenge him; she could have been his girlfriend or sister or any sort of relationship and the basic premise still would have worked. Making Einhorn BE Finkle causes the whole plot to collapse.
And while I'm never truly forgiven Jim Carey for writing this (and being an anti-vax weirdo), one person I hold absolutely zero grudge against is Sean Young. In case I wasn't already in the running for longest youtube comment ever, let me clear up some misconceptions about her. Her career started out white hot with Blade Runner and she had a decent run of flicks in the 80s. She was originally cast as Bruce Wayne's love interest in Tim Burton's Batman, but broke her leg shooting a horse riding scene and had to be replaced by Kim Basinger. Tim Burton promised her a role in his next movie. When Batman Returns started preproduction, she infamously showed up to the studio to meet with Burton wearing her own Catwoman costume. He refused to let her onto the lot, and stories spread that she was nuts. While it probably would have been wise to have called first, she was not crazy. From her perspective, the role was already hers, and she was jokingly wearing the costume to break the ice and show that she was ready and eager. Tim Burton didn't even have the decency to talk to her in person and say he was casting someone else. This did big harm to her reputation, which was absolutely buried when her ex-boyfriend, and noted bigot, James Woods starting telling the tabloids about how unstable she was and how she stalked him and a bunch of other stuff. Years later, witnesses would come forward and admit that actually HE was the violent stalker, and she was just trying to get away from him. And for that he harassed her and made everyone think she was unstable and impossible to work with. She had to take any role she could, and even though this is disgusting anti-trans propaganda, she played it damn well. She was believable as a hard-ass cop, as a femme fatale, and as a deranged killer. Sean Young deserved so much better.
If you've managed to read this far down, you've probably been on your computer too long. Go outside. Touch grass.
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[[WMG: The Dolphins lost the Super Bowl]]
Super Bowl teams that have serious distractions in the period between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl tend not to fare well in the game. The first trip for the Falcons was marred by Eugene Robinson’s arrest. The Falcons lost 34-19 and it wasn’t even that close. The Raiders in ‘02 had Barrett Robbins disappear the night before the game - the Raiders got crushed. Even the “should have handed it to Marshawn” Seahawks had their offensive coordinator take the Falcons job - and the infamous miscue by the offense sank the Seahawks.
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Super Bowl teams that have serious distractions in the period between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl tend not to fare well in the game. The first trip for the Falcons was marred by Eugene Robinson’s arrest. The Falcons lost 34-19 and it wasn’t even that close. The Raiders in ‘02 had Barrett Robbins disappear the night before the game - the Raiders got crushed. Even the “should have handed it to Marshawn” Seahawks had their offensive coordinator take the Falcons job - and the infamous miscue by the offense sank the Seahawks.
Having your star quarterback, especially one as accomplished as Dan Marino, would be the mother of all distractions, and unless the Eagles (their opponents) were inferior competition, they no doubt won the game handily.
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It was mentioned by Ace that Ray was the only professional athlete ever to come out of his hometown of Collier County. The word "only" in that sentence seems to imply that Ray was the first, and also the last. Perhaps THAT'S another reason the townsfolk made him a pariah. Ray was the first athlete out of that town. As such, he was also the standard by which all potential future athletes in that town would be judged. So, when he missed that field goal, he didn't just cost his team victory, and he didn't just cost himself his career as a football player. He also cost his town any more chances of getting anymore professional athletes out of it. It's likely that the NFL decided that, if Ray Finkle made such a blunder in such a crucial game, everyone ELSE they recruit from Collier County is likely to do the same. So, in short, Collier County is mad at Ray because, thanks to him, the NFL may never recruit anyone from their town again, ever.
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It was mentioned by Ace that Ray was the only professional athlete ever to come out of his hometown of Collier County. The word "only" in that sentence seems to imply that Ray was the first, and also the last. Perhaps THAT'S another reason the townsfolk made him a pariah. Ray was the first athlete out of that town. As such, he was also the standard by which all potential future athletes in that town would be judged. So, when he missed that field goal, he didn't just cost his team victory, and he didn't just cost himself his career as a football player. He also cost his town any more chances of getting anymore professional athletes out of it. It's likely that the NFL decided that, if Ray Finkle made such a blunder in such a crucial game, everyone ELSE they recruit from Collier County is likely to do the same. So, in short, Collier County is mad at Ray because, thanks to him, the NFL may never recruit anyone from their town again, ever.ever.
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