What sucks about movies from this era…
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Defiant Ones
jimbrown257 — 15 years ago(April 03, 2011 03:25 PM)
It sucks that because of "The Code", you know the bad guys can't get away. If someone breaks the law, you know they are going to have to get killed or punished somehow for it.
This took a lot of the fun out of this movie; the whole time you knew there was no chance they might get away, even though you wanted them to.
The worst of The Code, however, was in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents show where many of the episodes were about someone commiting the perfect murder. The whole point of the twist at the end would be how they pulled it off successfully and eluded the police. Then at the very end, Hitchcock would appear and say something like "However, the very next day he was apprehended." -
Excaliburan — 14 years ago(April 05, 2011 12:20 AM)
There have been films where the bad guys have gotten away, though. Not many. Some do get captured, some die trying, and some get away only to get killed later, like twenty years later. I root mostly for the bad guys, though. I like how they try to elude the good guys/do-gooders.
I found this movie very enjoyable. Yeah, I did anticipate that Cullen and Jackson wouldn't make it to freedom, but it was fun thinking along with them on how to get ahead. Unfortunately their attitudes led to their eventual capture.
I know I saw an episode or two of
AHP
but I don't remember that. That's a major let-down. It shouldn't be criminal to idealize the bad guys.
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Gov_William_J_LePetomane — 12 years ago(December 06, 2013 06:30 AM)
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mordloldad — 12 years ago(December 13, 2013 01:07 PM)
I don't think that the code really mattered much in this case, because I never saw the two characters getting away to begin with. But I do agree that it stunted creative expression in other films (the Alfred Hitchcock example is a good one) and is a dark cloud over Hollywood's golden age.
It's fair to say that it just
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creatorof2002 — 9 years ago(August 03, 2016 08:54 AM)
I root for the villains unless they do what I consider unforgivable which is killing an innocent person, even if by accident as a result of their crimes. Another unforgivable crime for me is extreme evil like rape, child abuse or horribly exploiting vulnerable people.
BUT. As long as they are only robbing banks or robbing trains or robbing armored cars or screwing over the government in some way, "honorable crimes" then I root for them. They can kill too if their victims are A holes who kind of deserve it anyway, like when Alec Baldwin killed the slezo guy in THE GETAWAY.