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Did you wanted him to get Caught??

posted 12 years ago by parknourie
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First and foremost, fantastic, fantastic film!
Really perfect in all departments for me.
The acting, the cast, the music, the dialogue, story and so on and so forth.
Anyways, I understand that some people didn't like this very much.
But I'm here to ask you one thing:

Did you wish that Richard Gere to get caught and pay for what he did?

Me? No. I was on his side till the end, biting my nails and wowing at how he wriggles his way out of every $h!t flying his way.
I don't really know how that character made me back him even while he ditched the crashed car. Maybe its Gere's natural magnetic charisma. Maybe it was his family speech at the beginning.
Sure, he could have been a real hideous monster (and some people might see him that way), but the film captures the perfect balance of charm and disgust that I stared at him with fascination...a bit like dinosaur fossils.

[–] officerchris 12 years ago

of course - he played the typical money hording selfish person.

...it also showed how it is in the real world. If you want to make a lot of money, you have to take it from a lot of people. This never is done in a fully legal and good way. Every famous company and famous people you adore had at least one moment in life where they decided to do something illegal or with questionable ethics. Some get caught and are afterwards richer then before (because they might be sentenced to a year in prison, but they are protecting a bunch of other people with that - who pay this person afterwards), the others never get caught.

For every rich person there are 100 poor persons dying somewhere - even for us and our lifestyles.

If you think he shouldnt have been caught, then you might also tend to have questionable ethics. Even in real life such people have strong charismatic personalities - like a good actor, which they are.

..believe me.. I have seen things..

[–] PrickWithAFork 11 years ago

I really can't imagine that anyone sat there tut-tutting and hoping that Gere was caught. In real life maybe, but the movie was totally from his point of view, so we were in his shoes. As I said elsewhere, I had a knot in my stomach for him almost from when he first walked into his mistress' apartment.

Gere did nothing particularly to ingratiate himself with us, but nor did he visibly do anything "bad" until the car wreck.

Yes, he was a wheeler-dealer who probably trod on a few people and yes, he was cheating on his wife. But these are movie tropes that we, in movie-viewing mode, find forgivable if we empathise with the character. The police did even less to get us on their side.

I think the majority of viewers probably did empathise with Gere right from the start.

I'm a Prick With a Fork.

[–] FoolyMagoolz 11 years ago

I didn't want him to get caught, but the reason why is because I didn't want the police to press any charges against Jimmy.

Dude walked into a crazy situation, and the cops were relentless against him, to the point where they falsified evidence.

[–] gabby_bm 11 years ago

As long as that coke-addicted French chick blew up I was OK with anything Gere did. He could have kicked puppies and pulled the heads off of kittens and it would have been OK because he did the world a favor by taking out that obnoxious French chick.

"De gustibus non disputandum est"
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[–] joshua_eash 11 years ago

I was rooting for him the entire time.

[–] blanche-2 11 years ago

I didn't want him to get caught, partly because I didn't want his accomplice to get caught, and partly because, as someone said, we were in his shoes. The character isn't Bernie Madoff. He's very human. He's trying to make things in his company right by being underhanded, and he didn't deliberately kill his mistress.

The price he pays is the disrespect of his daughter, and his wife is never going to forgive him. But she can go on doing her big charity work, and his daughter's career isn't ruined. He was willing to be arrested and even wants his lawyer call the DA until he realizes that the kid was telling him the truth about his drive.

Someone here said successful people often do unscrupulous things - but what about the police? Anyone who thinks that scenario was false doesn't know anything about what the police will do in order to put someone they think is guilty away. And that includes hiding evidence or not interviewing people who have a story that doesn't jibe with theirs. People are being released from prison now who were innocent and it's not JUST because of DNA. The majority of people being released are in prison because the cops focused on one person and didn't look at anyone else.

[–] oldmotem 11 years ago

Did YOU want him to be caught? That would be difficult to believe. I have not finished watching this one yet, but I am not decided on if he will be caught (or if so, suffer consequences). This is RICHARD GERE, man of TEFLON, slickest character actor out there.

He could slip out of any situation. Just anything.

[–] racegal15 11 years ago

I was satisfied with the ending. He lost everything. Good enough. Should have got more but funny thing is, his money didn't really get him off.

[–] xMort 11 years ago

I wanted to get him caught the whole movie. He was sleazy bastard and he should not get away with what he did. Even if he have nothing now, no money, no family but anyway, justice should win.