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Unrealistic In USA

posted 8 years ago by The_Blu_Ray_Penguin
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As most remote towns in 'Merica have households with multiple firearms, and every other male has a collection of AR-15s and hi-cap Glocks and prepper bags there is ZERO chance EVER of some menacing dude scaring an entire town. He would have been shot or beaten to death long ago. I have lived in many small towns in the PNW and even the small town libs know how to fire a pistol for the most part. If that MF stepped foot on a porch he wasnt welcome on he would have left backwards in a cloud of 12 gauge smoke. Liberal hollyweird though has this love affair with some inaccurate vision of the helpless american town filled with weak little imps unable to lift a bowl of soup. I guess they forgot what we are capable of, and that there would be no hollywood had we not pounded the *beep* out of the nazis in ww2. The hollywood system is one of the 1st things ol adolf would have disposed of had we *po small town folk* been as weak as we are always depicted in the movies. Anyway, its just a movie I guess.

[–] peterquennell 8 years ago

Very common theme in Westerns where everybody wears guns but it require the whole movie to play out before the baddie gets bumped off safely. "The Quick & The Dead" (Gene Hackman) and "The Salvation" (Mads Mikkelsen) are two I've seen in the past few days.

Big fail here though. Fault of the writers' transfer from the book apparently and a Swedish "nordic noir" director. It seems Blackway wasnt meant to be a mere stalker or rapist or dog dismemberer, he had a business, and money, and a dangerous long arm - like the Hackman character.

[–] djj93312 (88) 7 years ago

If you're interested in a real life situation like this, Google "Ken Rex McElroy".

[–] mobocracy (892) 7 years ago

I think there's a couple of things that make it work in real life.

One, the bullying is very much implied and not obvious so it creates ambiguity for its victims on how to respond. The other is if the bully (like Blackway) is part of an organization, there's always the worry that a single person can't defeat an organized gang on their own. And then there's corruption or indifference by the cops.

And murder is still illegal, and if the threats against you aren't obvious enough you can still go to jail for homicide. Maybe the prosecutor is in the county seat and you're in a smaller nearby town. He doesn't know about your bully, he just knows that killing people without an immediate self defense reason is a crime.