Willow ,'End of Days'
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Oh, thank god it wasn't just me.
But he pronounces it sort of in the middle of the two languages so I put it down to that.
Plus, his two kids had such British sounding names that at a certain point I began to wonder if she was even supposed to be French.
Oh, so here's another question which may have been answered by the credits but I didn't notice.
Is Michael Caine Cobb's father or Mal's father?
They don't have surnames in IMDB, so that doesn't help.
I guess I assumed that a man with an English accent would be more likely to have a French daughter, but then I read a review or a comment somewhere that referred to him as Cobb's father. I think to me, the relationship's much more interesting if Cobb basically killed his daughter.
I definitely thought he was Moll's father, but I'm not sure why I thought that. I definitely thought her name was Moll.
I assumed he was Cobb's father, and that he had raised Cobb with the dream skills. I thought there was some reference to that in their conversation.
I also thought he was Mal's father, and that her name was Moll. I agree with Dana, but I've seen different reviews say different things, with authority.
Okay, putting actual thought into it now, I guess I also figured that Michael Caine had Cobb as a student and taught him how to architect dreams. If that's a verb. Which it probably shouldn't be.
I'm pretty sure he calls him his father in law.
When Cobb comes to Miles, Miles says "So you've come to take my best and brightest" in a way that makes me feel like the "...again" is implicit. Like Mal is Miles' daughter and maybe Cobb and Mal met in Miles' classes, or something. All speculation.
Here's another thing I've been wondering: I think Cobb says that the token was Mal's idea, and I know the top was hers. But did Cobb have a totem before the top, and if so what was it? I mean, there's no way to know, I've just been toying* with the thought .
* ha!