What exactly does Dan in "Seven Pounds" do to help Will Smith? What was the plan?
In the movie Seven Pounds, Ben (Will Smith) and Dan keep talking about the plan.
What exactly was the plan and how did Dan help him with it? In the end Dan talks to a doctor or someone and convinces him to accept Ben's heart to save Emily's life. Who exactly is Dan in the movie apart from being friends with Ben.
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What exactly was the plan and how did Dan help him with it? In the end Dan talks to a doctor or someone and convinces him to accept Ben's heart to save Emily's life. Who exactly is Dan in the movie apart from being friends with Ben.
Dan is the living executor to Ben's will, once Ben dies.
In order for Ben to ensure that his remaining body parts (heart and cornea) are given to Emily and Erza, Ben had to establish a will and then assign someone to carry out its details upon the event of his death. This person is generally referred to as an executor.
From Wikipedia:
"An executor is a legal term referring to a person named by the maker of a will or nominated by the testator to carry out the instructions of the will. ... The executor's duties also include disbursing property to the beneficiaries as designated in the will, obtaining information of potential heirs, collecting and arranging for payment of debts of the estate and approving or disapproving creditors' claims."
If Ben hadn't of gone through the process of creating a will and legally establishing that Emily and Ezra are to receive his remaining organs/tissues, then, it would be at the state's discretion as to who gets them ..
.. And, in all probability they wouldn't go to Emily and Ezra, but instead, to patients who are either in immediate critical condition, and/or on a waiting list of some kind.
An unfortunate case of this occurring IRL: a mom had kidney failure and was on dialysis for several years; the son was tested as a positive match, but before a transplant took place the son was killed; the mom then tried to get her son's organ to save her own life, but she couldn't because no legal effort was made to establish that the mom should receive the kidney upon her son's [untimely] death.
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Who are the seven people Will Smith helped in Seven Pounds?
Ben helps seven people directly: Tim, Holly, George, Connie, young Nicholas, Ezra, and Emily. If you count Inez, the old woman Ben orders to be washed, he helps eight people. She wasn't part of Ben's plan, and her name was not on his list. Will Smith chose Michael Ealy to play his brother in the film.Who was Dan in Seven Pounds?
At the hospital, his best childhood friend Dan (Barry Pepper), though distraught over promising to see Tim's final wishes through, acts as executor of Tim's living will to ensure that his organs are donated to Emily and Ezra. Ezra receives Tim's corneas, which correct his blindness, and Emily receives his heart.What were the 7 donations in Seven Pounds?
Now extremely depressed and masquerading as his brother Ben, he plans to end his life and donate his organs (7 pounds' worth) and his home to seven worthy recipients. He gives his bone marrow, a kidney, a lobe of his liver and a lobe of his lung while still alive.What did Will Smith give Ezra in Seven Pounds?
Haunted by the deaths of these seven people, Tim was able to save the lives of six others with his organs: Ben required a lobe transplant, Holly receives part of his liver, George a kidney, Nicholas got bone marrow, Emily receives his heart, and Ezra receives his eyes.Seven Pounds/Best scene/Gabriele Muccino/Will Smith/Barry Pepper
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