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anyone else feel KM was glorified in the film? *spoilers*


I thought the film was well done but felt the whole "I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees" thing was overdone and unmerited (partly based on what family from the area have shared with me). I thought this was a pretty sold film, though, otherwise. I spent a good deal of my youth visiting family in rural Missouri and this felt right outside the way folks talked. p.s. - I think we're treated to at least a pair of moments involving the KM character talking about his terms for checking out of this world and then he lights up a cigarette before the firing squad at the end.

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I think just being played by Brian Dennehy would tend to glorify someone a little too much. But yeah, giving him lines like that and having Dennehy play him with such swagger would seem to be giving this man more of a positive or "heroic" light than he deserves.

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Didn't look heroic to me but there were efforts made to have him portrayed as something that might have been mistaken as human. As for him being played by Brian Dennehy remember Dennehy also played John Wayne Gacy.

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No! He was a psycho and an idiot. Brian Dennehy did a great job though.

Dini

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