NIce guys do not blow the head off of a leader of a group of men. They could have contacted state police or the national guard.
Nice guys don't bayonet a man in the groin and shoot and stab another two to death........
The soldiers could have contacted state police............
I think we'll forget the national guard shall we.....
NIce guys do not- sic dogs, set traps, drop trees, dig up dead bodies to torment their enemies.
They were certainly not nice guys.
Hill's point was to show that not all Cajusn were bad, and they were unlike the four or five that were hunting the soldiers.
Agreed
You also missed the obvious points that Stuckey was the only one who really instigated anything and that was emant to be a joke.
Was he the one who clubbed a one-armed man in the mouth? Or the one that blew up a one-armed man's home?
Spencer, Hardin, and the two black soldiers (T. K. Carter and Franklyn Searles) wanted nothing to do with the raid on Byron James's hut.
Even Spencer and Hardin who wanted nothing to do with anything, did nothing much to stop it though did they?
Hardin committed fratricide on Reese defending james character, yet the Cajuns still kept coming.
They had to kill everyone to prevent themselves being found out. We also don't really get told what was driving the Cajuns. Was it just vengeance or were they trying to free their presumed friend? The one-armed man 'let' Spencer and Hardin escape, but he warned them that his friends might not be so merciful. I also took a couple of 'watches' to realise that 'Coach' had hung himself. When I first watched it I thought he'd been murdered; but he couldn't have been otherwise Spencer & Hardin would have been killed in the night too.
Once war breaks out, being nice is no longer an option on either side.
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MonsterOfTheMiramichi
17 years ago
'They had to kill everyone to prevent themselves being found out. We also don't really get told what was driving the Cajuns. Was it just vengeance or were they trying to free their presumed friend? The one-armed man 'let' Spencer and Hardin escape, but he warned them that his friends might not be so merciful. I also took a couple of 'watches' to realise that 'Coach' had hung himself. When I first watched it I thought he'd been murdered; but he couldn't have been otherwise Spencer & Hardin would have been killed in the night too. '
Thats correct. a few people have attempted at a theory that the cajuns took bowden and left hardin and spencer sleeping, and then murdered Bowden, in order to torment hardin and spencer. but this is ridiculous, as the cajuns were solely interested in driving the unwelcome marauders from their property, they were not interested in playing mind games.
Furthermore rseibert, what responsibility did the locals have to be nice guys? After the soldiers committed criminal damage, theft, intimidation and destruction by bomb, I don't think the cajuns should have to think 'ah, they're just a bit pissed off, lets leave them alone to maraud our homeland some more'.
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chrismahon2005
17 years ago
I was just thinking though,that the cajuns must have been used to the national guard units doing playing war games round the area,they would have to get clearence to make sure no one innocent got hurt,the cajun did have telephones and did go outside there lands,so the goverment would have let them know im sure.
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dioro
16 years ago
***Spoilers***
It very well could have been the writers/director's intention to make you think that the government intentionally let the guardsmen loose on those Cajuns. The government probably didn't and still doesn't today like the idea of self-sufficient people living their life in their own lands. Perhaps they had problems with these Coonasses before, and now they were sending in some nutcases to teach them a lesson. Think about it. There was a faulty map leading right to the Cajun's canoes, only one helicopter sent to rescue, and not knowing which side of the war the military truck was on.
And sure, the guardsmen started it by stealing canoes and firing the first shot. The Cajuns were right to shoot back because they thought they were being fired upon. However, even though most people are blaming 4 or 5 bad Cajuns, it seems like the whole village was in on it, or were aware of what was going on. I don't think anyone would have thought twice to save the two or would have done anything about it after the fact. Only the one-armed guy showed any compassion, probably because his life was spared earlier.
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