He is so strange. He could have said yes and still went on his mission.
shareAnd he could also have figured out he wasn't up for marriage BEFORE showing up at the altar in the monkey suit.
"He who swaps his liberty for the promise of 'security' deserves neither." Ben Franklin
All previously mentioned plot-based reasons are plausible but really it’s surely related to a certain misogyny –more specifically the notion that close relationships for men, with women, divert them from their more supposedly natural yet besieged manhood …a fairly standard concept and one that is present in various Nick Love films. I say this a little disapprovingly but at the same time rather liking Outlaw as much more complex exploitation film than most give it credit for.
shareThere’s a deleted scene and then an extended scene that explain this – both only last a few seconds so I’ve no idea why they were cut, as without them it makes no sense and they’d have been as well just not showing the wedding at all.
Anyway, in a deleted scene, his fiance’s father voices disapproval about his future son-in-law not being “man enough” because of the beating and maybe the fact that he was so traumatised after it too.
Then, in the extended scene, after saying “no” at the altar, he then punches his father-in-law out before he walks off.
No sure what’s sadder, the fact that I’m answering this question after 10 years or the fact that I’ve actually watched the deleted scenes!