Would've been better if he chose the hot girl Carol
instead of the ugly and annoying school teacher
shareYes, and he probably would've saved his leg too.
shareHe did choose Carol. All she was offering him was sex and that's what he got. On the other hand his feelings for the schoolteacher were those of real love, not lust, which delve deeper into the soul than feelings of lust.
shareMcB had no feelings of love for Edwina.
He was snowing most of the women - trying to save his ass from the rebels.
He was trying to be something to each of them - but he went too far for his own good. Actually, Carol, he was just trying to sleep with because, well, who wouldn't.
But the others, he was trying to fill gaps in their lives, making them see in him what they were missing - and hoping that that would make them want to keep him around.
The marriage announcement at the dinner table, right before he dies, is a last-ditch effort to save himself. There is no love from him. The man is sociopath.
Great film.
I don't think it's fair to call McB "sociopathic". Do you remember the setting of the film? Civil War Louisiana. That's the equivalent of an American being held captive in modern day Iran. When you find yourself fighting for your life in enemy territory, human nature dictates that you do WHATEVER IT TAKES to survive and save your own ass. Is the will to live sociopathic? Is survival instinct sociopathic? He could have easily taken the gun and killed every single girl in the house, but nooooooo - he chose to act nice to them. Even if it was truly for his own benefit and nothing more, it's FAR from sociopathic...
shareActually I thought he chose for either Martha or Edwina, *not* for Carol. Carol surprises him at the staircase when he was on his way to Martha or Edwina (he already passed the stairs to Carol's room). When he was surprised by Carol, he went to bed with her, because continuing his original plan would cause a scene, and in the end he did want to have sex of course.
sharecoz carol's the type ya bang and edwina's the type ya marry you cant no ho into a house wife
in todays news paris hilton has now made it illegal to weigh no more than 108 pounds.
...and the incestual Martha is the one you kill. Haha. Did The Beguiled secretly invent the game bang, marry, or kill?
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