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Disturbing

posted 10 years ago by HarveyManfredSinJohn
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When I first saw this film I was expecting a light-hearted 'The Sting' or 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' type comedy, and for the first half or so it seemed that way, with each side playing dirty but far from nasty tricks on one another to get the upper-hand (like giving one boxer a laxative so that he craps in his shorts *urghh*), but then the villain, Gillon, lynches one of his black boxers. That was very dark and what's worse is that there's no indication that Gillon is punished for that crime. He just gets punched out at the end by the dead man's brother.

Did anyone else find the boxer's death jarring in view of the film's overall tone? It was as if the lynching of a black man isn't that big a deal.

[–] hacker7-503-679471 10 years ago

I watched this movie again last night,I agree with you, the movie would have been better without that part of the script.

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[–] Doc80 10 years ago

Why would he be punished for the crime? The sheriff was the one who actually kicked the stool out from under him to hang him in the first place. He certainly isn't going to arrest him for anything because he knows he will just roll over on him.

[–] shredder08 10 years ago

Murdering that boxer wasn't the first time Gillon killed someone. What he did to Charles Macum Diggs was essentially murder.

I like to think that Ham killed him eventually, or someone else that he had pissed off.

[–] gluserty (626) 7 years ago

Yeah, I found the death of the boxer's brother to be pretty jarring, and it felt like it was part of a different film to me; I guess this film had a mean streak in it, if one includes the death of Wolf.

[–] johnral (138) 5 years ago

umm -- yes. That's the death of a 25 year old dude. The movie seems to end on a positive note, with the deceased brother punching out the bad guy; but this is really grim. They would have done better to just beat him up, or to have his brother save him at the last minute. And as a practical matter, how could the villain have given the kill order that quickly? Cell phones were not common back then, and a pager would need a phone. And how did they have time to write that note? etc... This should have been fixed in the script.