I was just watching Boiler Room and there’s that scene where all the young trainees at the firm are sitting around in the meeting room on their first day, waiting for Ben Affleck’s character (one of the senior brokers) to come in and give them their introduction speech.
Affleck comes in and there’s a guy sitting in his chair. He walks up to him, and politely says, “sorry, that’s my seat, man.”
The guy gets out of the seat, embarrassed and apologetic. “Oh shit, man, I’m really sorry.” Affleck says, “it’s okay.”
Then the guy sitting next to Affleck’s seat looks at the guy who sat there without knowing, and as he’s walking away to find another seat, smirks and mutters, “fucking dumbass.”
There’s a pause, then Affleck goes, “get the fuck out of here. Don’t talk to me, don’t look at me, just pick your ass up out of that Italian leather chair and get the fuck out of this room. We expect you to treat your co-workers with a certain level of respect.”
It’s so satisfying because the guy was being such an asshole and Affleck’s character just smacked him down so hard.
There are a lot of moments like this in movies, where someone gets “what’s coming to them,” for doing something extremely rude, annoying, evil, etc.
Another one is The Mist, when Ms. Carmody, the raving lunatic who turned half of the crowd against the other half with her “prophecies,” gets unexpectedly shot to death by the unassuming, dorky manager.
The whole theater cheered and burst into applause when that happened.
What are some other moments like this? Moments where someone who is just behaving like a real piece of shit gets what they deserve? Ever seen the whole theater burst into applause at something like this?
