Think about it. Calhoun and his men had a nice quick merciful death. An explosion. Cantone on the other hand had a slow vicious death and they tortured him.
Why? Why did they hate Cantone so much? It was Calhoun trying to takeover. I know Cantone was a racist *beep* -- is that why?
I think they did. And the movie really drew out Cantone’s scenes, where he basically monologued with the slow, nasty, racist, vitriolic, underlying hate filled patronizing speeches that really highlighted how inferior he felt ray, quick et al were (largely based on race). He was set up to be more of a hated character for the audience, hence the more elaborate safe-death scene, even though his character had a touch of comic relief to him.
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