Talk:Vincent (Collateral)

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[edit] Incorrect information

What's the deal with the new info box? More importantly, where did the box's creator find the information regarding Vincent's birth date? I'm a huge fan of this film and have seen it numerous times, but have never seen anything that mentions Vincent's birthdate. The most background info available on the character (that I know of, at least) is on the featurettes on the DVD, and even those don't say much, especially concerning his birth year. -ARSmith

I'm going ahead and deleting the birth and death dates for Vincent, along with the bit that says he has a hitman uncle named John Richardson. I don't know who's adding this stuff in, or, more importantly, where they are getting it from. I own this film on DVD, have seen it and the bonus features multiple times, and nowhere does it give out any of this information. The only people in the world who would possibly know that would be the filmmakers, and I doubt Michael Mann has released his personal notes to anyone. - ARSmith, 21 April 2007.

[edit] Spoilers

Instead of using a "spoilers begin here/spoilers end here" to show where the spoilers are, I just decided to start the whole page with a spoiler warning, as there is no end to them. There is no way to read any of this article without having first seen the movie, because it walks through both the plot and Vincent's character and development. In the future, please add spoiler warnings when you give away the whole plot. --217.73.106.170 00:02, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Vincent.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:41, 12 February 2008 (UTC)