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Why did Han hire such useless guards/bodygurds?

posted 12 years ago by suspiria85
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Even in superior numbers, his brown clad underlings could not stop Lee or Williams. His personal bodyguard (O'hara) was only good for beating up old men. When pitted against Lee, he could not land one blow on his opponent and was completely destroyed. Then there's Bolo, who crushed 4 of the aforementioned, incompetent guards like insects, but when faced with one, average sized, dirty-fighting white man (Roper), gets pummelled, kicked in the nuts and dies.

You'd think a guy that was "fearful of assassination" would put a little more effort into choosing people to protect him.

[–] ianws 11 years ago

Isn't this the standard movie hierarchy/cliche for bad guys involving one or few taking on a whole team: The basic underlings are always badly trained and go down with one punch or kick (or a bit of shooting in films involving guns). It's the whole fight process to lead on to the "great big guy" (Bolo here) or the "number two guy" (O'Hara here) who is a better fighter before leading to the chief protagonist.

[–] AgentBlue 11 years ago

Because thats how it was in the 70s.

Lose the Game!!!!!!!

[–] drronnie 9 years ago

You mean the training was bad in the 70s? LOL

[–] Dirty-Barry 9 years ago

Its always the same, any Bond type villain always hires a hopeless mob as protection.

[–] HalRagland 8 years ago

If you fast forward a year later to "The Man With The Golden Gun" you see the cliche of the bumbling lackeys of the villain taken to comic absurdity, and it seems like it is being deliberately done since it was the 9th Bond film. Bond fights his way out of a martial arts school in Hong Kong that appears to be funded by the financial sponsor of the Man With The Golden Gun. Anyway, I love it when Christopher Lee as Scaramonger asks his financial sponsor "Hi Fat", "What do they teach at that school, ballet dancing?"

I think the best examples of the villain's lackeys who can't shoot straight are Rambo II, but most especially Commando, where the heroes single handedly take on small armies who must be legally blind because they don't even hit them with a bullet once.