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What Do You Think Happened to Parnell After He Went to Prison?

posted 16 years ago by none-85
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Remember Virgil's line near the end of the film as Parnell was being led through the prison to his cell: "Hey officer. Hey officer. Ain't life a mother fucxxxker!"

I say the cons first would have knocked out all of his teeth so it would have been nice and soft going in. Then they would have bent him over a workout bench and browned him- night after night after night. Then after about 6 months, someone would have shanked him, possibly stuffing the homemade knife up his ass.

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[–] falcon2484 16 years ago

Cute ending, but totally unbelievable. There is NO WAY Parnell would be put in the GENERAL POPULATION in Oroville (full to the brim with cons quite possibly personally busted by him). I remember in Detroit, when two officers named Nevers and Budzyn were convicted of the beating death of a man named Malice Green. One was sent to a California prison, the other to Texas. And they were both put into Protective Custody. Parnell would've been murdered on his first day in, like Robbie.

And I want to be clear: I love this movie, and I DO understand the concept of "dramatic license."

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[–] manage-932-700755 13 years ago

Well, of course you are right. Still, one can dream and even picture an extended ending where Parnell got it up the asxxxs.

[–] stu_w 15 years ago

I like this movie because it makes me wish my conspirator in crime could've gotten jail time instead of me. The jerk turned 'state's evidence' letting him off the hook with 18 months probation while I got 2 years in jail. I recieved parole after 9 months, but still, I'm bitter to this day. He should've been put in jail too.

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[–] MrSirreal 14 years ago

He would have taken the easy road. He would have hanged himself or killed himself some other way the first night.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

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[–] jayhn1111 14 years ago

He would've been killed the first day. It's as simple as that.

[–] creatorof2002 14 years ago

If I was Sellick in this scenario the guy would NOT be killed. I would visit my friend (forgot his name, the guy who was his best friend while he was in prison) and ask him to keep the guy alive as long as possible, providing him with some kind of protection as powerful criminals can do. However he would be totally fair game for rape and other forms of abuse, that would be a fate worse than death as the years go by. He would probably be glad to comply since he hated that guy almost as much as Rainwood did. Keep him alive as a sex slave.

[–] jayhn1111 13 years ago

I would've been very happy if they dedicated an extra half hour to the movie to show him being gang raped, and beaten multiple times on a daily basis.

[–] BoSoxRule 13 years ago

David Rasche did a great acting job, because I wanted to kill Parnell.

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[–] manage-932-700755 12 years ago

They should have burned em like they did Robbie. After they put him over a workout bench and ten cons browned him, they should have poured gasoline on him, lit him up and burned em.

[–] ricky_may1 12 years ago

He was killed on his first day there.

[–] hackraytex 12 years ago

They would definitely have to lock him up in protective custody to keep him alive and probably keep him in solitary confinement. They may send him to another out of state prison and put him under an alias.

[–] Edward_de_Vere 12 years ago

In the movie, beatings, rape, and eventually murder.

In a lest just and fortunate reality, Parnell would be given protective custody (or sent to a much cushier Federal prison) and would come out unscathed.

[–] benbo-3 11 years ago

I smell sequel! "A Guilty Man" - 25 years later, Parnell gets out, finds Rainwood, terrorizes him & his family Cape Fear- style. In the end, a dramatic finale in which Rainwood stabs Parnell with a homemade shank, exactly as he did Jingles. Surely would be better than the other sh!t in theaters now, like Transformers 4 or another Twilight movie.

[–] terrenceburris 11 years ago

Those two cops inadvertently stole nearly a million dollars worth of coke, from Donatelli. Those two had a deadline to get that coke back to Donatelli, that they missed. Parnell wouldn't be safe on the streets, in prison or even in solitary confinement; Donatelli would be well connected with the prison officials and the convicts.