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What the hell was Anthony's problem?

posted 11 years ago by Born_Tomorrow
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He was crazy as hell. When the judge sentences Anthony to 15yrs to life, he seems shocked and becomes irate and cusses at the judge, then throws a chair at him, as if he had been done some huge injustice. I just want to know, how much time was his crazy ass expecting to get for killing several uniformed officers and armed guards, then blowing up an armored car with an explosive device. All of this, while conspiring against The Federal Government and robbing them of 300,000 dollars? People get the death penalty for less than that but somehow he thought that they were going to let him off just because he had been to Vietnam.  That fool should have been grateful to have a chance of walking out of there someday. I honestly thought that he was about to say "Thank You" or something to show his appreciation for leniency but instead he threw a chair at the poor man. (SMH) What an ungrateful jack ass.

All typos and misspellings courtesy of a public educational system.

[–] chas77 10 years ago

To me that was the film's weak point. It's like we are expected to feel this crazy injustice has been done. Maybe if the actor was better or it was better written we could feel some sympathy for him. I had more sympathy for Fred Williamson's character getting shot at the end of "Black Caesar" than poor Anthony.

[–] omoxus 10 years ago

The word "life" just caught him. Just before then he stated thsyhe he was accepting his fate. I was kind messed up on how the judge made those disparaging remarks about Vietnam soldiers. It was just an all around tragedy.

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[–] WaterlooBridge 10 years ago

After Anthony comes back from Vietnam, everything is downhill for him. He's slowly loosing it, and at the end he just snaps. After everything he went through I thought that reaction was perfect. He's supposed to be crazy like that and with the judge bashing Vietnam vets, the chair throwing seems like something the movie viewer can understand. I understand Anthony committed a crime, but the judge just degraded him right there and I geniuenely felt sorry for Anthony. Great performance by Larenz, Love him.

[–] abajasds 10 years ago

You would like to think that Anthony's problem started when he was in Vietnam, but he was skeptical about about a lot of things prior to graduating. I guess he was basically just being a teenager, because he must have been 18 when the movie started, but he wanted to join the service which from the story, he had the opinion but was sick of school, he wanted sex with his girlfriend one minute, but when the time came he was rather shy, and what's worst is, he didn't use protection so then up pops a baby, then get this, didnt want for Juanita to wait for him to return home, but later he was pissed off when he found out that Juanita was keeping company with some pimp looking fellow.

So really it hard to say what's Anthony's real problem is.

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[–] Milkdoesabodygood 10 years ago

He is a black guy from the North East bronx which does have a weird vibe to it.

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[–] akaaisia-45141 8 years ago

You have to understand the beginning and the end of the movie...it starts with Anthony risking his life for his country, never knowing if he will make it back to normalcy. Then the end of the film he hears life behind bars where again he will give up a life of normalcy. When he tried to live a "normal" life through out the film he was haunted by nightmares, belittled by his child's mother and her pimp, and peer pressured by negative influence.