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When he kills Brumby

posted 13 years ago by mercury4
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That scene was laughable. The way he just keeps hitting, saying something, hitting him, saying something. It was just funny. Then he just lifts him up over the ledge and off the building. It's like the whole scene was done in slow motion. He slowly beats him up and slowly throws him off the building.

In the Get Carter remake, when Jack goes after Eddie, it's a lot like this scene, but done so much better. Eddie says, "Jack, don't kill me, man." Then Jack says, "You killed yourself." Then it cuts to him leaving with the sound of a car alarm going off. You can see Eddie dead on the car.

[–] A_Friend_of_Sarah_Connor 13 years ago

You're not supposed to root for the Carter character in the original. If you think it's funny to see a man pummelled and then thrown off of a parking garage roof by a vicious thug then what does that say about your level of desensitization? I have not seen the remake but I get the sense that it's just the standard action film of Sly killing baddies and the audience being forced to root him on like mindless zombies.

"I'm gonna need a hacksaw"

[–] smirnoffboy 13 years ago

always think its pretty harsh when he kills Brumby in the film.
He supplied Carter with some information - i know he was hoping for Carter to do some of his dirty work for him, but to kill him seemed way over the top

if you cant stand the heat, just wait til you get to hell

[–] jh66 12 years ago

No it's exactly what Brumby deserved - he isn't the nice guy he thinks he is. He is complicit in the murder of Frank Carter.

Jack is outraged by that film, in which his 'niece' (I think it's his daughter- as the beaten-up Keith hinted) is being 'done'. He knows Brumby knew about it and his part in getting his brother killed.

Nature takes it's course...

[–] Paedokiller (298) 4 years ago

Also, Albert revealed that Brumby ''wanted to ''meet'' Doreen''.

[–] ecarle (14979) 4 years ago

Carter comes to Newcastle as a dangerous professional killer...but one with a certain amount of professional "cool."

But after he sees that film -- and his "niece"(maybe daughter) IN that film...he goes over the brink. His killings from that point on have a merciless, psychopathic savagery to them -- even as he is still following a plan.

Get Carter is a gritty, documentary-style on-location film of its year -- 1971. Consequently, the action is staged rather "raw." Carter's earlier smacking around of Brumby ("You're a big man, but you're out of shape -- I do this for a living") seems a little "amateur," too but -- we allow for the realism of the film to suggest: this is what it is REALLY like to beat another man. No stereophonic smacking sounds on the soundtrack, no perfectly edited punches.

Indeed, by the time Sly Stallone made HIS remake in 2000, the resulting movie was much more typical modern action fare -- perfectly filmed fights, and a lot less psychopathy on the part of Stallone's vengeance. The ending is different, too.

[–] johnmiller (3976) 4 years ago

It's interesting how Carter just throws gangster kingpins off of buildings like their simple rubbish.