How many movies can their possibly be about assassins that lose their memory. Heres a couple off the top of my head. Bourne movies, point of no return, the show Alias, long kiss goodnight.
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Kill Bill
shareI don't recall (heh) there being any memory loss in the Killer. I am assuming you are refering to the Chow Yun Fat film. If there is another Killer film, then my mistake. CYF did lose his memory and revert to a child-like state in God of Gamblers, but he wasn't an assassin.
Also La Femme Nikita/Point of No Return/Black Cat had the main character not remembering killing the cop at the begining but that was due to drug use, not amnesia per say. :-)
Uma Thurman never lost her memory in Kill Bill. She was only in a coma.
shareI think they were listing movies featuring assassins who hadn't lost their memory, just to illustrate that not all assassin movies are about amnesia.
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oops ok i figured out the thread now. all these answers (kill bill, ghost dog, the killer etc.) are responses to rubycalaberxx's post :)
shareIn some cases, like this movie, it adds character depth... like what could have been if they had not become assissins... in other cases it can use flashbacks to develop the characters with out the need for a formally structured story line..
My favorite is GhostDog, even though he had no memory loss... I like how the flashbacks showed the point of views of both him and Louie (who's life was at stake / where the gun was pointed), and how he lived by the Hagakure (read pg. 172 in the one with the black cover)...
and the final scene was great, along with Leon's in The Professional...
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I think its because their jobs are so dangerous that they're more prone to having enough extensive damage that would cause them to lose their memory.
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Hah, I was just thinking the same thing.
the Long Kiss God Night may be the first of this genre, but other films like the Bourne series and Conspiracy Theory were better.
Now that I think about it, La Femme Nikita may be the first of this genre.
the Long Kiss God Night may be the first of this genre
The whole niche is that they're "programmed" assasins; programmed to kill and also programmed to forget. The logic behind this is that if the assasin is ever put in a vulnerable position, they won't be able to incriminate any of the major players. Once the completed mission is over, they have to contact their base, for mental maintenance checks.
shareI forget why...
shareIt's an MKUltra control function.
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