Dead Presidents has a “kill me. do it.” scene that is actually plausible.
During the Viet Name sequence, Lorenz Tate is carrying a fallen platoon-mate out of the jungle. The poor guy had has guts obliterated and was intentionally emasculated. It’s doubtful that he’s going to make it at all and while Tate is fireman-carrying the guy out of the brush, he’s whispering in his ear, “Kill me, Curtis. I can’t go home like this. I would do it for you.”
You can see Tate’s character anguishing over whether he should put his friend out of his misery and leads one to wonder how many soldiers may have actually had to face a similar dilemma.
“Kill me before I become a vampire” (okay, not those exact words, but pretty close) is used once or twice in 30 Days of Night. It is quite understandable given the context, though.
“Kill me before I become a vampire” (okay, not those exact words, but pretty close) is used once or twice in 30 Days of Night. It is quite understandable given the context, though.
The bad guy and the good guy finally come to a head where the bad guy has the upper hand.
He immediately launches into a smug, egomaniacal speech detailing his gift, plans, and exploits while casually brushing a rogue piece of fluff from his $6,000 suit. Yawn
I wish that just once the bad guy would blow away the good guy at the first chance he got.
Jake Mazursky tells Johnny Truelove to shoot him in Alpha Dog when he’s got the pistol pointed at him: “You point that gun at me, you better pull the fucking trigger! Well DO IT!”
But I think he knew that Truelove wasn’t going to shoot him, and he just did that to prove that Truelove didn’t “have the balls” in front of his entourage.
Can you please give an example? I’m not at all sure what you mean, which is impairing my ability to hate neck-cracking horses as much as they clearly deserve.
Some friends convinced me to come with them to see The Hills Have Eyes, and I laughed out loud in the theater when the hero not only turns his back on the presumed-dead villain, but drops a shotgun next to him. Naturally, there’s a Tragic Child nearby, ready to sacrifice herself.
Long meaningful conversations between two people (For the sake of example lets called them Bill and Bob) that end with Bob getting up and walking to the door, then the following exchange happens
Bill: Bob?
Bob: What?
Bill: …Thanks
It pleased me no end that I was able to completely cut this out of a play I directed a couple of years ago.
Protagonist rushes into authority figure’s office during moment of crisis. Female secretary gets up and yells “you can’t go in there!” Protagonist naturally ignores her.
You know what I am really sick of seeing? When someone is driving and a car comes up opposite the camera and sideswipes them. It seems like in recent years, I have seen that nearly a dozen times.
I can’t think of all the examples, but I know it was in The Forgotten, at least one of the Bourne movies, plus at least one episode of ER and an episode of Nip/Tuck. Now I’m disappointed that I can’t come up with a better list than that. I know I have seen that so many more times in other movies. Maybe someone else can think of a few more.