Patrick Swayze's Ass Woopin
I watch this movie just for that scene ..Randall "Tex" Cobb rocks.
shareI couldn't stand the Swayze character at first. Come on a rookie telling seasoned vets what to do. As he had no right to do that. He, not them, needed to get along. The guy was pretty arrogant and loved it when Sailor kicked his butt and nearly ate him for lunch. Teaching the kid a lesson about not treating vets like raw recruits, as Hackman was trying to tell Swayze all along.
But then when Gene Hackman's character told the others about Swayze's father being shot down in Vietnam and MIA, they treated him with respect. And he began to become a team player, not a team leader. Which is what he needed to be all along. Plus, Hackman's character should had told the team about his father in the first place when they first got there. Had he done that, they would had respected him a little bit more.
Patrick Swayze's Ass needed Woopin he was never in a fire fight or in combat...He never even killed a person, been with a buddy that was killed...He had contempt for the whole team even more for Sailor...
shareYou said it Odewill! You said it all as you took the words out of my mouth!
shareThanks "ShelbyTMItchell" have fun next time you see Patrick Swayze's ass gittin kicked take a chug of a cold one 4 ME
one CHUG A LUG ......YO KICK in the TV .....Who is the SOFTEST .....PUNK B!TCH Patrick Swayze........
...Hackman's character should had told the team about his father in the first place when they first got there. Had he done that, they would had respected him a little bit more.
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For the sake of Swayze's character arc, I think this was an acceptable plot device and Hackman probably wanted to test the others and mess with them a bit. All they knew, was that he had never been in combat and then made judgements about him, based on that simple knowledge. They could have asked more questions before Swazye's Ass Woopin; but then we wouldn't have likely gotten one, if they knew about his father MIA.