What happened to the original muggers? What kind of revenge movie goes after other people who are criminals and ignores the actual people who attacked your family?
Very unsatisfying would never fly nowadays. Didn't it occur to this guy to try to find the actual people who attcked his family? Lack of closure rubbed me the wrong way - liked the ending though.
No one knows what happened to the muggers. The idea of it is that, although it was unfortunate for Paul who never got a chance to see eye-to-eye to the muggers who attacked his family, I guess he was hoping to eventually run into them at some point but he never did. In the novel, however, he was rather frustrated that the police failed to apprehend them to the point that paranoia and fear succumbd him until he got a gun and decided take the law into his own hands starts killing people that he assumes are muggers.
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If they had technology in 1974 like today, they would have been found or st least suspected due to DNA testing. I mean, one of the muggers did put his weenie in the girls mouth
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i know u wrote this 2 years ago but u can be wrong. my city has 2x that size and the robber came back 2-3x and i caught him and we were able to get back some stolen items. it was a very harrowing experience, but during that time i was too young to own or use a gun but i wouldve loved to kill him and i still do.
he poisoned and killed our dog a week before, dog died in my arms. this guy came back several times and his excuse was that it was for milk or something for kids that werent his own, total of the items stolen doesnt make sense for "milk" or anything.
normally these people wanna go back to the scene of the crime.
I think this was one of the features that elevated Death Wish above the standard revenge film. It isn't a revenge film at all, but an anger film. There was a kind of remake of Death Wish with Jodie Foster called The Brave One. Not bad in a way, but at the end she finds the people who killed her boyfriend, and she got all better after killing them off. So disappointing.
I don't think it would never fly today, but it wouldn't fly in Hollywood.
In Death Wish 2, he tracks down all the rapist/murderers of his daughter. When I saw it, I thought, boy, he has good internal tracking!!! Was cheesy.
But, I still love all the Death Wish movies! They're so bad, they're good!
well, he actually saw the muggers in number 2, but in the first, no one but the raped daughter and dead mother saw the muggers, so theres really no one to tell what they looked like, since the daughter became mute after
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Yes it was very dissapointing that kersey never got jughead and his gang but i noticed something jughead left behind on the floor in the apartment it was his yellow scarf i'm surprised the police never had it examined for sweat, it would have been a first step in finding them.Did any other viewers notice this clue?
shareThose original muggers were the catalysts of Paul's rampage yes, but to have him confront them eventually would hose down the story. Its not a revenge movie, its an "ideals gone wrong" movie. The good guy is the bad guy. In any case he wasnt particularly looking for the original muggers.
But my guess is that Jeff Goldblum, Baldie, and Spray-can all heard on the news that there was a vigilante on the streets so they headed north to Canada. Jeff with his leadership skills got a job as a sheep herder. Baldie with his enforcer tendencies became a jail guard for the Royal Mounties. And Spray-can volunteered for the CN Tower's paint job.
That's the message of the movie. Sometimes people get away with taking advantage of others, and there's nothing we can do about it but try to curb the same thing from happening in the future. The chances of Kersey tracking down the muggers in DW1 was impossible. It happened in DW2, but that's why the movie is so ridiculous. In the first film, the attack on his family serves as the catalyst to change his views on conscientious objection, and it shapes him for the subsequent film to come.
shareThis is one of the reasons why I liked this movie so much.
shareIf somethning happen to my family I would go after every single criminal I can get to..
shareI thought this post was going to be about Jeff Goldblum.
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