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The Bone Collector is a 1999 thriller starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. It was based on a crime novel written by Jeffery Deaver, concerning the quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme. It was the first book of the Lincoln Rhyme series. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...
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Plot summary
A quadriplegic ex-forensics expert, Lincoln Rhyme (played by Denzel Washington) and a rookie patrol cop, Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie), team up to solve a string of murders all related in one method: A single shard of bone is removed from each of the victims. The killer poses as a taxi driver, and abducts and kills those who get in his taxi. The first two victims are a married couple named Alan and Lindsay Rubin, who get a taxi home but then find themselves kidnapped by the killer. Later, Amelia finds Alan's body buried underground. His wife Lindsay is taken into a steam tunnel, with old handcuffs on her and tape across her mouth. She gets handcuffed to a pipe. Rhyme and others try to find out where she is, but they arrive too late. She is scalded from steam and has a bit of flesh removed from her arm. The killer then abducts a NYU student. He is taken to a slaughterhouse where he is tied to a pole and gets gutted with a knife and left for dead, and then eaten by rats. Amelia is able to collect the evidence there. Later, a grandfather and granddaughter are abducted and are tied to a pier. The girl is rescued, but her grandfather dies. Amelia is then able to figure out that the bone collector is after Rhyme. The bone collector arrives at Rhyme's house, and after killing Rhyme's assistant, it is revealed that he is the medical technician who cares for Rhyme's medical equipment. The technician is an ex-forensic cop who wants revenge because in the past, Rhyme's testimony helped convict the killer of planting false evidence at crime scenes. The result is that the killer was brutalized in prison and his life ruined. But Rhyme is saved when the killer is shot by Amelia as he attempts to stab Rhyme. The film ends at a Christmas celebration, with Rhyme's sister and niece coming to visit him. Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. ...
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Differences between movie and book - Rhyme is white in the novel and black in the film.
- Rhyme's aide is female named Thelma in the film, but is a male in the book by the name of Thom.
- Rhyme's aide, Thelma in the film is killed by the Bone Collector. Thom, the aide in the book, is not.
- Amelia's surname is Sachs in the book, but is Donaghy in the film.
- Detective Selitto's first name in the book is Lon, in the movie it is Paulie.
- The motivation, name and role of the Bone Collector is different between the book and film.
- In the movie Rhyme is still on theoretically active duty and cops are helping him out. In the book they reached a settlement for $3 million and he is retired. He usually doesn't see anyone except for his aide and his doctors.
- The first two victims were business associates in the book (married couple in the film)
- The victim he cuts to attract rats was female in the book, and survives. In the movie the victim is male, and dies.
- The UN story line from the novel is absent.
- The FBI link from the novel is absent.
- Some crime scenes are mixed up.
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Continuity errors - When Amelia jumps into the water to save two victims there is tape on the little girl's mouth, but a few seconds later the tape is not visible.
- After Amelia comes out of the water, her clothes are soaked, but when she heads into the tunnel, they are dry.
- It was only Rhymes right finger that can move but when the bone collector breaks it, it is his left finger.
Book Sequels More books have been written around Lincoln Rhyme, This is the first. The next one is The Coffin Dancer. The Coffin Dancer is a book by Jeffery Deaver. ...
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