Subject: Re: American Beauty aka whodunnit?
From: Gene (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 12:20:42 EST
> I thought it was pretty clear. Didn't they even
> show the
> Nazi-Homosexual with blood all over him? If you
> want evidence: which
> character would be able to sneak up behind a person
> in a quiet room
> without being noticed? An ex-marine. Which
> character would hold the gun
> muzzle that steady? Certainly not the hysterical
> wife. Maybe Rickey.
> Certainly the ex-marine. Which characters would
> execute a man from the
> back rather than have him turn and confront their
> issue with him? Rickey,
> maybe. Ex-marine certainly.
>
> It would be difficult to persuade me otherwise.
>
> Oh and Rickey, ex-marine, and wife are the only
> ones with access to a
> firearm.
>
> But like I said, I thought they revealed it in
> the movie.
I definately agree with you that the Colonel is most
likely the one to have done it. My friends theory(and
you did hit upon it) was that Ricky's mom was the
murderer(He believes it can't be as obvious as the
Colonel, and I can understand that view too, but..).
He says she was upset at how Lester had tore apart her
family. He also says that when the Colonel was sitting
in front of his open gun cabinet w/ the missing gun
and with blood all over him, that he had seen the
missing gun before Lester's murder and had realized
what his wife was going to do and ran over(with gloves
on and all) to clean up the mess and protect his wife
from prosecution.
BUT, I've read a script of "American Beauty" found on
the net(don't know if this version is completely
accurate) and found this little segment that seemed to
contradict what he said(also in the script it is
plainly stated that Carolyn has a Glock 9 and not the
.44 Magnum that was used to kill Lester:
"INT. FITTS HOUSE - KITCHEN - DAY
BARBARA stands at an ironing board, ironing a WHITE
T-shirt. She HUMS softly as she meticulously folds the
T-shirt and places it atop a stack of equally
obsessively folded clothing. She then reaches into a
laundry basket and gets another T-SHIRT to iron...
CLOSE on her hands as she spreads the T-shirt out on
the ironing board: it's FLECKED WITH DRIED BLOOD.
BARBARA stops HUMMING, confused. she stares at the
shirt FOR a long beat, then glances around, opens a
kitchen drawer and stuffs the T-shirt inside. She then
resumes ironing, without humming."
So I think(like you) that I stick with my original
idea that the Colonel killed Lester. I just wanted to
see how others felt about it(whether he did it, or
whether it was made out to be too obvious and that he
didn't do it). P.S. If you'd like to look over the
whole shooting scene(beginning with the Angela and
Lester "virginity" scene), I've posted it on my
club(based on the script I found on the net) :)
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/quotesfromallwalksoflife
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