"It's absolutely true." says Diana.
"Is it? What do you think?" asks John Gage
"I agree with Diana." David replies
"You do? Well let's test the cliché. Suppose -- I were to offer you one million dollars for one night with your wife." Gage says.
"I'd assume you're kidding." says David
"Let's pretend I'm not. What would you say?"
"He'd tell you to go to hell." Diana pipes in
"I didn't hear him."
"I'd tell you to go to hell."
Indescent Proposal is my favorite love story, this scene is at a critical junction in the movie, and the whole premise of the story. Billionaire John Gage can have anything he wants, money is no problem, but can he buy love?
David has love, the love of his life Dianna. She is a talented real estate agent, and her high school sweetheart, David is a crafty architect. He has designed the home of their dreams, trouble is they can't afford it. So they take what they got and head to Vegas. There they are hoping to increase their funds to finance the home of their dreams.
They end up losing all their money at the roulette table, but Dianna runs into billionaire John Gage. He invites Dianna and David to a private party in which he makes the "indescent proposal". At first they both tell Gage to "go to hell" but after deliberation, they really could use the money, I mean money can't buy love right?
They agree to the offer, and Dianna flies to Gage's private yatch. Gage understands how this is distressing to Dianna and will give the continuance of the night to fate. A flip of his lucky coin to determine if all bets are off. He calls it correctly.
In a normal sense a coin has a 50/50 probability. Half the time it will be heads and the other half it will be tails. Unless the coin is weighted then things change, or if it is double-sided. Watch the movie to reveal the coin that Gage used, it's great.
When you think of stats and probability a coin is pretty basic. It can either be heads or tails, those are the only options you have. With AWS they can compile stats that will predict the probability of Patrick Mahomes completing a pass on his left foot going out of bounds. Football is very dynamic with a lot of variables, I am not sure how they do it but I can crunch some numbers for bowling.
David in the story is played by Woody Harellson, he was also a talented bowler in the movie Kingpin, Munson. Let's say that Munson was so good that he hit a strike 75 percent of the time. In order to calculate the probability of a Turkey for Munson ( that is three strikes in a row not a bird, like you can get for seeing a person for the last time )
The math goes like this for Munson, he hits a strike .75 of the time, we need three in a row so the probability is .75 x .75 x .75 x .25 = .105. Roughly a 10% chance of bowling a turkey.
Now Dianna and David tried their luck at roulette, if instead they would have tried their luck at poker, the biggest payout would be for a Royal Flush. This is straight flush, but with a specific set of cards. The straight flush has to be all of the same suite with 10,J,Q,K,A.
What are the chances?
Okay with 10,J,K,Q,A we have 5 cards and 4 suites, so the first card can be 20/52. The next card has to be in the same suite so we have 20/52 x 4/51. The next card also has to be in the same suite so we have 3/50, then 2/49, and 1/48. You multiply them all together you get 20/52 x 4/51 x 3/50 x 2/49 x 1/48 or 480/311,875,200 roughly a 1:649,740 chance.
In the story love conquers all against all odds.
"Is it? What do you think?" asks John Gage
"I agree with Diana." David replies
"You do? Well let's test the cliché. Suppose -- I were to offer you one million dollars for one night with your wife." Gage says.
"I'd assume you're kidding." says David
"Let's pretend I'm not. What would you say?"
"He'd tell you to go to hell." Diana pipes in
"I didn't hear him."
"I'd tell you to go to hell."
Indescent Proposal is my favorite love story, this scene is at a critical junction in the movie, and the whole premise of the story. Billionaire John Gage can have anything he wants, money is no problem, but can he buy love?
David has love, the love of his life Dianna. She is a talented real estate agent, and her high school sweetheart, David is a crafty architect. He has designed the home of their dreams, trouble is they can't afford it. So they take what they got and head to Vegas. There they are hoping to increase their funds to finance the home of their dreams.
They end up losing all their money at the roulette table, but Dianna runs into billionaire John Gage. He invites Dianna and David to a private party in which he makes the "indescent proposal". At first they both tell Gage to "go to hell" but after deliberation, they really could use the money, I mean money can't buy love right?
They agree to the offer, and Dianna flies to Gage's private yatch. Gage understands how this is distressing to Dianna and will give the continuance of the night to fate. A flip of his lucky coin to determine if all bets are off. He calls it correctly.
In a normal sense a coin has a 50/50 probability. Half the time it will be heads and the other half it will be tails. Unless the coin is weighted then things change, or if it is double-sided. Watch the movie to reveal the coin that Gage used, it's great.
When you think of stats and probability a coin is pretty basic. It can either be heads or tails, those are the only options you have. With AWS they can compile stats that will predict the probability of Patrick Mahomes completing a pass on his left foot going out of bounds. Football is very dynamic with a lot of variables, I am not sure how they do it but I can crunch some numbers for bowling.
David in the story is played by Woody Harellson, he was also a talented bowler in the movie Kingpin, Munson. Let's say that Munson was so good that he hit a strike 75 percent of the time. In order to calculate the probability of a Turkey for Munson ( that is three strikes in a row not a bird, like you can get for seeing a person for the last time )
The math goes like this for Munson, he hits a strike .75 of the time, we need three in a row so the probability is .75 x .75 x .75 x .25 = .105. Roughly a 10% chance of bowling a turkey.
Now Dianna and David tried their luck at roulette, if instead they would have tried their luck at poker, the biggest payout would be for a Royal Flush. This is straight flush, but with a specific set of cards. The straight flush has to be all of the same suite with 10,J,Q,K,A.
What are the chances?
Okay with 10,J,K,Q,A we have 5 cards and 4 suites, so the first card can be 20/52. The next card has to be in the same suite so we have 20/52 x 4/51. The next card also has to be in the same suite so we have 3/50, then 2/49, and 1/48. You multiply them all together you get 20/52 x 4/51 x 3/50 x 2/49 x 1/48 or 480/311,875,200 roughly a 1:649,740 chance.
In the story love conquers all against all odds.
Author: admin
Obviously my interests include philosophy. I think thinking and thought are the beginning of every great thing. It’s how we understand and perceive the world. Periodically I’ll change things up and blog about something math or computer science related or even a blog about mythology. I am not political, trendy, or savvy, but I do like a good story. That is why I try and find a movie clip that hints or encompasses what I want to blog about. Sometimes the relevance is there, sometimes it’s a reach and I just really love the movie that I put in the post. The intent and purpose of my blog is to make you think, make me think and together our thoughts can be shared in a collection of material.