“I want to know everything about her…”
In movies involving a bad guy who is some kind of intelligence agent, there is always a scene in NSA headquarters where the boss tells a technician to enhance a photo of our protagonist. Doing so reveals the face of the protagonist’s girlfriend. The boss barks to his number 2 a list of minutiae that he needs to know about the woman by tomorrow.
Tomorrow, I want to know everything about her. Everyone she’s ever known. Everywhere she’s ever lived. Every book she’s ever read. Her second grade teacher’s name. Her brand of toothpaste. Which side of the bed she sleeps on. Her favorite music. Does she eat her pretzels with mustard? etc.
Then, many scenes later, number two comes back with a profile. But everything he then tells his boss, the audience already knows, except for one crucial detail, which when she eventually tells the protagonist will probably lead to them having sex.
My question is, whatever happened to that minutiae. Does the boss actually not find out what side of the bed she sleeps on? Or are intelligence agency bosses all bullshitting hyperbolaters, and their minions know it?
Besides, how did he get to be a high ranked intelligence agent in the first place without figuring out how to evaluate useful information from useless information?
