Possible spoilers in here, be warned
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trdemings — 13 years ago(May 20, 2012 06:04 AM)
This is discussed in the Commentary feature of the film. The director wanted to put two real life elements into the film. One being the scene where the guys in the gallery start singing "We'll Meet Again" and then the other was Stamp getting upset about his revised execution date. The Commentary said this was based on a Civil War incident where the man to be executed was very calm and cool but when his execution time was moved up a couple of hours it unnerved him and he lost his cool. So, it wasn't so much that he wanted to go to Paris, but that his day of execution changed.
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Brennan-8 — 13 years ago(July 09, 2012 10:34 AM)
Basically, what TRDemings said [poster above] - a Confederate soldier is supposedly brave and unafraid of death, until the date of execution is moved up.
The Commentary to this film was very interesting. It was amusing to learn that Tim Roth was so green - he had never been in an airplane before, never been out of England, never driven a car, etc. Cute.
Terence Stamp is certainly a magnetic fellow. Loved the DVD extra of his interview with Michael Parkinson. He's a remarkably honest guy too it seems. parky asked him about this mystique he has because he "disappeared" for 10 years, walked away from a very successful film career. Stamp said it was actually because his career cooled off, hit a lull much to his surprise and upset, and that he hadn't intended to be unemployed for 10 years, it wasn't intentional! -
Bree_33 — 12 years ago(June 04, 2013 01:57 PM)
Philosophy vs. Reality.
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cubic2002 — 11 years ago(April 04, 2014 04:55 PM)
I personally think it's because he hadn't completed the full journey (to Paris) and that would have been his acceptance..OR he had a plan to escape, remember early on he did tr drive a wedge between the two assassins.
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Gobobo — 11 years ago(March 11, 2015 08:44 AM)
Of course he wanted to go all the way with young Myron. Gay Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past. Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing, going in circles, mounting each other. Paris is the city of love, and Willie certainly was light on his feet!
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wam251256 — 11 years ago(January 23, 2015 05:16 PM)
Because it was a poorly written naive script that was badly directed. A simply plot device to show humans are fallible, Willie was full of introspective wisdom but when it finally came to his mortality self preservation kicks in and is reduced to a base human. As they say: " There are no atheists in a foxhole".
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kevinosborne_99 — 11 years ago(March 20, 2015 06:27 AM)
We each live within a reality of our own making. Willie had become used to the reality of Spain, a warm, timeless existence with little responsibility. Then reentered his old reality, with a completely different set of requirements. When he realized by the nature of his captor that he was unquestionably going to die, Willie was able to fit that fact into a workable reality so long as he knew the parameters. There would be a predictable story and it would end predictably. When that predictability vanished he could not continue to create his own death and disagreed with that decision and ran from it just as he had run from England 10 years before.
The assassin lived a different existence, one in which change and adaptation ruled. He could easily do what occurred to him at the moment, kill Myron, spare the girl's life. That freedom to act had worked out for him in the past. When it didn't work out for him he adapted to it not working and accepted the inevitable.