Durant and Strack

[Vigilante]

I was wondering if Darkman realized the Durant-Strack connection from the beginning (the party sequence ---> which brought Darkman to put his monstrous hands on Rick Anderson).
I think he didn't realize it, after all...well, he didn't until the point he was able to read the "Strack Industries" signature on Durant's helycopter, of course.
Probably he justified the presence of Durant at Louis Strack Jr.'s party somehow -----> keep in mind Strack was a very powerful man, and Darkman might have thought that Durant was interested in keeping a good skin-deep relationship with him or something like that, without being necessarely involved each other. Officially, Louis Strack Jr. claimed that Durant and him were both interested in territorial properties - this apparently qualifies them as reciprocal adversaries. Technically, Louis acted as a saviour in Julie's eyes by warning her to keep safe the Bellisarious Memorandum, because Durant was interested in it. This way, Louis pictured him as a personal "enemy", and avoided Julie's suspects.

Darkman unmasked him, in the end.

[D@rkm@n]

I always saw that as the worst plot hole in the film. No one was supposed to know about their alliance till the end, but there's Durant, sipping champagne at Strack's party. I don't think he would've been on the guest list unless he worked for Strack.

[Vigilante]

I don't think there's a real plot-hole here... see above!

[D@rkm@n]

Perhaps. But if I were Strack, I wouldn't invite a competitor to my party.

[Vigilante]

darkman2005 said:

Perhaps. But if I were Strack, I wouldn't invite a competitor to my party.

By inviting Robert G. Durant to his party, I think Strack wanted to show he had nothing to "hide" to general public's eyes. A current strategy. Eh ehe ;D

[kooshmeister]

I always got the impression that Strack only made up the whole competitor thing in order to sucker Julie. I.e., everyone else knew that Durant and his gang were Strack's employees and Durant wasn't really that notorious a criminal yet so no one would be too suspicious of Strack for hanging out with them (the dialogue with Eddie Black at the beginning seems to imply that Durant and his "girls" were the new kids on the block), so Strack had no reason not to invite well-dressed goons to the City of the Future Ball.

Also, when Durant comes into Strack's office close to the end, he does so less than a minute after Julie left. Would he and Julie had bumped into one another in the hallway?