wow, definately the most ballsy character in the history of film! It was cool to see someone who wasn't afraid of dying and basically didn't care about being hung.
anyone think so?
True :)
shareWell,
Less someone who wasn't afraid to die than somebody who accepted the inevitability of his situation and was suffering standing there watching the spectacle and feeling his own anguish.
I think given the choice he would have gladly walked back down those stairs and gone home, but that wasn't on his schedule that day...
Actually, I think he was talking to the other actor, not the character.
shareThe entire multiple hanging scene is one of the best scenes in motion picture history.
sharesrnumber has it dead on. If you know there's nothing to save you, you want to get it over with.
And that's partof the reason why the other posters are correct about this hanging sequence being such great movie making.
Each of the characters responds in a different way. One wants to get it over with, one wants to make a last desperate escape, one wants to sum up the total of his life, one wants to taunt the hangman a little and get a last gibe in. Even the two boys react differently from each other. How anyone cannot be touched when the one says "Bye", is beyond me. That was a directorial achievement.
Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time
that's not funny!
In 1901 a badman named Black Jack Ketchum was hanged in Clayton, New Mexico. Before they dropped the trapdoor and in response to a request for his last words, he said, "I'll be in hell before you boys eat breakfast."
As a side note: they were not used to hanging people in Clayton and misjudging his weight, cut to rope too long and it resulted in Jack being beheaded in the hanging process.
Who knows all the "noose witticisms" uttered by doomed men?
I heard of a guy in England who was about to be hanged.
-as he was standing there with the noose about to be put around his neck he asked the Hangman "Is it safe?"