In Blood Simple, Frances McDormand’s character doesn’t realize that it’s M. Emmet Walsh’s character who is trying to kill her until the last few seconds, when he calls out to her as he’s dying. She doesn’t even know who he was. Until then, she has assumed that it was her husband, played by Dan Hedaya, who was after her.
This isn’t quite the same thing, but in Heat, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro’s character only meet twice. Once is in the diner when Pacino tries to persuade De Niro not to go through with whatever crime he’s planning. The other is in the last few seconds as Pacino holds De Niro’s hand as he’s dying.
I always assumed Turk was the good guy and the guy who wanted to feed him to the pigs was the bad guy. But maybe Tommy Four-Fingers (was that his name? It was something Four-Fingers) was the real bad guy, since he stole the diamond in the first place and caused all the problems. If Turk was the good guy, then they definitely didn’t meet…
Damn. Can’t believe I never thought of that. Considering both books were written by Frederick Forsythe, I can’t believe I never noticed. Dumbass smilie for me.:smack:
You’re forgetting the very end. Ed Harris’s character comes out of the tank and runs across the torn-up landscape and is caught off guard by Jude Law. They stare at each other for awhile before the final kill.
Perhaps this is what you are referring to in the “through a gunsight” comment, but I would consider this scene as them meeting one another.
Spygame.
If you count Robert Redford as the main protagonist and not Brad Pitt. And if you count the Chinese government as the bad guys and not the CIA.
Oh yes they have. They just don’t know it. AOTC makes it clear the power of the Dark Side to obscure. Its mostly seems to obscure Lucas from logic, but I digress
Hmm… If you count Al as the Villian and not the Prospector, I’d say Toy Story 2. The Toys drop unconscious every time Al’s around (and awake). Note that this almost holds for Toy Story 1, except that the toys reveal themselves to Sid at the climax.
The hero (a Texas sheriff) is investigating the death of the villain (a past sheriff). Not exactly a traditional hero-villain tale (there’s a whole lot of other stuff going on), but it sort of qualifies.
And yeah, Braveheart is another. Longshanks and Wallace are on opposite sides of a battlefield at one point, but that’s as close as they get, and there’s no indication they even see each other.
If you consider this movie as a contest between Roosevelt and Raisuli, then this would qualify. The closest the two ever come to meeting is in the final scene, when Roosevelt reads a letter from Raisuli.
As for which the hero and which is the villain: well, it depends on your politics.
Are we still worried about spoilers for a book that was written lo, these many moons ago?
'sides, the good guys already met him. Elrond & Isildur did, anyway…
for Frodo to meet up with Sauron would require as much of a departure from the book as, say, eliminating Tom Bombadil or having Arwen ride out from Rivendell to save Frodo.
I contend that The Ring is the villain in Lord of the Rings. And even if the villain is Sauron, then:
Aragorn confronts Sauron via the Palantir in ROTK.
Also, I was under the impression that Gandalf mentioned that Sauron had achieved corporeal form. Thus, the giant eye on top of Barad Dur is just a glorified periscope.
