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Would never fly nowadays

posted 17 years ago by JoMiDe35
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The fact that Paul never caught up with the thugs who hurt his family would NEVER fly in Hollywood nowadays. For some reason they think every film made today HAS to have closure. Thats what sucks about todays movies.

[–] tepista 17 years ago

so true

[–] Bogart91 17 years ago

I agree it made it a more intering story. even though i would have liked to seen them die i think in the end its much better this way seeing them walk right past paul is a very defining moment in death wish that makes it even more powerfull.

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[–] mcfly-31 17 years ago

I'm sure in the Stallone remake he'll bump into them toward the end of the film in the subway and stick Goldblum's legs onto the tracks :).

[–] chas77 15 years ago

<<its much better this way seeing them walk right past paul is a very defining moment in death wish that makes it even more powerfull. >>

Wait a minute -- when did this happen? Goldblum and co. walked past Paul Kersey after the mugging/rape?

[–] merrilyac 15 years ago

In a remake..with all the DNA testing now.. there is no way he WOULDN"T be able to find them. Plus he would be caught even sooner!

[–] nicknackolous 15 years ago

the fact that its a vigilante film would make it "NEVER fly" in Hollywood nowadays. Been done 100 times, it worked then because it was somewhat new.

[–] grbettencourt 15 years ago

Death Sentence "flew", and like this one, made it seem realistic.

[–] grbettencourt 15 years ago

Admittingly it adds realism, but it wouldn't've sucked if it'd been otherwise, I like closure.

[–] dems0408 15 years ago

I think that the fact that the 3 punks at the beginning got away was the driving force behind Kersey going vigilante like he did and continuing it indefinitely.

If the 3 punks had been caught and convicted that kind of closure may have stopped him from embarking on his vigilante spree before it even got started.

It was the injustice of them getting away with it that stoked his intense desire to hurt perpetrators. Imagine if the cops got a lead from a witness who saw the 3 punks run out the building and the cops rounded them up and the daughter recovered from her catatonic state so that she could identify them. Imagine then that they got tried and sentenced to life in prison.

If all this had happened it would make his deadly vigilante spree on anonymous muggers thereafter somewhat less plausible.

[–] shaker-maker 15 years ago

Was just about to echo chaz77 - at what point did the muggers walk past Paul??

[–] rwsmith29456 12 years ago

I think you right.

[–] jefgg 11 years ago

There was talk of a remake with Sylvester Stallone. I wondered how the movie would be changed to conform with modern political correctness. In 2006 Stallone officially announced that he will not be making the Death Wish remake.