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What about Sunday?

posted 18 years ago by LibFeathers
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Something I don’t understand is Tom Sunday’s fate. After he is eliminated from the sheriff’s race, Orrin calls him a liar and he slaps Orrin. Then he storms out of the bar, too angry and drunk even to open the door. Two thugs are waiting outside. One of them goads Sunday into a duel. The second guy, however, backs out of the way and says, “Don’t shoot, I’m not drawing on you.” Sunday fires at him anyway. The guy again says, “Don’t shoot!” but Sunday apparently kills him.

And what happened after that? Okay, the first guy asked for it. But the second left the scene and was begging Sunday not to shoot him, but he did. And Tom Sunday just walked away. Why? Nobody protested? He got away with it? Is this merely something else that was lost when they cut the script?

[–] badmoon-rising 18 years ago

nobody was there to see that the second guy was murdered. everyone came running at the sound of shots, but by the time they got there, both men were already dead

[–] robble-1 18 years ago

yeah and then he just continues his downward spiral, drinking and getting into fights in the area (in the book not the movie) and lets his hate for Orrin build until the final scene when Tyrel has to kill him.

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[–] porfle 17 years ago

I don't think he shoots both of them. He kills the one who draws on him, and then shoots at the other guy until he runs away.

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[–] Banjo_Bullfrog 17 years ago

I haven't seen the movie, but in the book, The Daybreakers, Tom shoots the first man, The Durango Kid, and then he shoots the second man because he makes a fast move and Tom thought he was going for his gun. I guess they just added the man begging in the movie to make Tom's downfall more dramatic.

[–] porfle 16 years ago

I watched it again last night, and he definitely doesn't shoot the second man.

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[–] trf100 16 years ago

Correct. I just watched it over the weekend; Sunday does not kill the second man. He just shoots in his direction to frighten the **** out of him. (and it works!)

[–] Bilwick1 16 years ago

The scene works better in the novel (THE DAYBREAKERS). You're left with a sense of ambiguity about what happened, and it's at a point where Tom Sunday hasn't quite gone "rogue," although he's clearly heading in that direction. Tyrel Sackett, the narrator, admits even he might have drawn and fired at the second man, under those circumstances. The fight in the book also reads like a real Old West gunfight, like something L'Amour got from a newspaper archive rather than his own imagination.

[–] black_blade001 14 years ago

The saddest part of the story, where Tye is forced to kill a man he knew as a best friend, imagine how difficult something like that would be...

[–] LTUM 11 years ago

yeah, tye was always my favorite character in the books. i never felt osterhage lived up to the part in the movie.

tye was a total bad @ss in the books, for sure

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