You’re wrong. Commisair Claude Lebel confronts him and shoots him at the end of the book (and Fred Zinneman’s film)
Agreed.
Frodo never meets Sauron.
Das Boot. They never see any of the people who are trying to sink them.
The Last Starfighter – Xur does appear as a hologram, but never meets Alex face-to-face and, indeed, when he does show as the hologram, he has no idea that Alex is going to be important.
“Blind Fury” - Rutger Hauer never sees the bad guy because his character is blind.
The protagonist of all the “Blind Swordsman” films - ditto.
Or is that not the OP meant?
In the accurate movie that deserves to be made but won’t be, General Gordon never meets the Madhi. In the Charlton Heston-wants-his-own-Lawrence of Arabia vehicle, they do.
IIRC, our stalwart British heroes never meet the Mahdi in any of the film versions of The Four Feathers. In none of them does Gordon figure as a character, either. But, I could be wrong, I’ve only seen the 1955, 1977, and 2002 versions.
Different Mahdi. Slithy is referring to the movie Khartoum
“Scorecards, get yer scorecards here! Can’t tell your mahdis without a scorecard…!”
I know this is a stretch since the good guy/bad guy do meet at the end, but not until then. In “Falling Down”, Bill (De Fens) and Sergeant Prendergast do not see each other until the final scene that takes place on the pier.
Mty mistake. For some reason I thought The Four Feathers (no version of which I’ve seen) was set elsewhere.
Although I note that the 2002 version about 15 years later, for some reason.
And D-FENS doesn’t even realize that he’s the bad guy until confronted by the good guy.
The 2002 Heath Ledger version was set 15 years earlier, I think you meant. The three previous versions were set in the 1898 war, while the 2002 one was set in the expedition sent to rescue Gordon. Why? I can’t imagine, except maybe because the red tunics of 1885 are more photogenic than the khaki ones of 1898.
(BTW, I often notice on BBC productions set in that era that the prop people put little Gordon stautues on the mantles or his portrait on the walls of middle class homes)
No, the Wiki page very definitely says 15 years later, sent in to avenge Gordon by fighting the “Mahdists” (the Mahdi shoulda been dead by then).
As i say, I haven’t seen the flick, so don’t ask me why, or if the description is accurate.
Gordon was quite a tragic/heroic figure of the day. His death nearly ruined Prime Minister Gladstone’s reputation when critics charged that he was too slow in coming to Gordon’s relief (for some, Gladstone’s nickname went from the “Grand Old Man” to the “Murderer of Gordon,” GOM to MOG).
Conan Doyle mentioned in one of his stories - “A Study in Scarlet,” maybe? - that Sherlock Holmes had a picture of Gordon hanging in his 221B Baker Street rooms. Granada Television was careful to include such a picture in the Jeremy Brett series of adaptations.
“I’ll get you, Gadget!”
Does Edward “Longshanks” ever meet William Wallace in Braveheart? I think they’re on the same battlefield at one point, but I don’t recall them ever meeting face to face.
Jack Aubrey never knowingly meets his French adversary in Master and Commander, but they do see each other.
The other way around, no? From memory, the priest guy tells Korben about Zorg, but I don’t think Zorg ever realizes that Leelou and priest guy have a third person with them.
Good catch. Pretty much everyone else that Chigurh sees ends up dead, with the exception of the coin-tossing older fellow.