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Something strange

posted 13 years ago by expatria2
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The plan was to lead Wade's gang on the wrong path by switching people. Some cowboy changes places with Wade and pretends he is him. The gang follows the carriage and when the main guy, Charlie finds out Wade is not inside it, kills the cowboy. It was pretty obvious sth like that would happen because the gang basically kills anybody they want to.

My question is: Why did the cowboy go on a suicide mission? Didn't he know he might be killed? I don't believe he wanted to die or even believed it could happen. He didn't complain when he had to switch places with Wade.

I guess it is just one of those things that haven't got much sense but have to happen so the movie wouldn't suffer. :S

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[–] expatria2 13 years ago

First of all, I don't usually watch this kind of movies so I didn't know this was considered usual.

Secondly, if sth like this happens in all movies of this kind that doesn't make this one less strange. This decoy wasn't "the usual one", it was a suicidal mission, and thus it's different from Mission Impossible (I guess, never have seen Tv series nor movies).

Thirdly, I don't see why it should it matter if the guy was an ordinary cowboy or a deputy, a suicidal mission is what the name says. The marshall at the end of the movie chose life over law, there is no reason why the deputy wouldn't have done the same.

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[–] subase 13 years ago

The guy probably hadn't thought the group was cold blooded enough to burn the carriage down.

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[–] Zanza8 12 years ago

The marshall at the end of the movie chose life over law, there is no reason why the deputy wouldn't have done the same.

No reason except dedication to duty. I think there might have been a lawman in real life who has done that a time or two.

http://thinkingoutloud-descartes.blogspot.com/

[–] SurviveAlive 13 years ago

This does seem like a suicide mission, but there is more to the plan than what actually panned out. It was explained to Evans's wife when she asked that they expected the carriage to make it to the safety of the fort before Ben Foster could regroup with the gang and capture the carriage. I guess he was able to gather the gang and catch up with the decoy sooner than expected.

[–] Burning_Sosobra 12 years ago

Something strange in the neighborhood? A lawman always knows he risks getting killed by doing his job. No, he probably didn't realize that the gang was going to set the carriage on fire with him locked inside, but obviously they knew that death was a very real possibility. That was your only question regarding an unrealistic scene in this movie?

They burned Sosobra, God of bad luck!