A couple of questions concerning Milky's attack and Banjo
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drakeyequation — 10 years ago(October 06, 2015 03:23 PM)
Shaun begins crying prof-usably whereas the other guys are laughing holding Shaun Down (The Guys thought Combo was just joking around and not really hitting him).
Because Shaun keeps crying Combo kicks him out of the room. Which is when Banjo and the other guy realise that this is in fact not a joke but he has actually beaten up Milky pretty bad & he is bleeding badly.
The fat guy says 'We thought you were pulling our leg' - And Banjo Says 'You Have gone too far Combo we have been with you - But now we want out of this'. This enrages Combo further and he unleashes fist blows on Banjo and smashes a glass over his head.
Wowwww Way to completely miss the point of that scene.
Banjo was holding Sean down because he was trying to stop Combo from kicking the crap out of Milky. Combo & his gang were Neo-Nazis. When they said
"We thought you were winding us up!"
they were talking about before the attack when Combo was bonding with Milky. They couldn't stand to think he was fraternizing with the enemy (a non-white). You even see Meggy (the one with the glasses) egging Combo on during the assault. Then they want to join in,
"We want our bit!"
and Combo turns on them because he's raging with inner-conflict and regret at what he's done. -
Reminisce_PartOne — 14 years ago(January 08, 2012 02:26 AM)
I was just thinking to myself whilst reading your post, that Combo probably thought something along the lines of -
"What the fuc- k so they're lettin' just anyone in now a n!gger here, a kid there"- when he first saw Woody and the old gang again after comin' out of the can (of course I'm quite sure the old gang were all new faces to him, except for Woody himself).
He must have felt very disheartened, shocked, confused amongst other things, to see a black guy and a little kid let into the gang which was perhaps once so much more exclusive. but just now I thought about how Woody and Milky were friends since kids, and also how Woody and Combo go back a fair bit odd then that Milky was a new face to Combo out of the can maybe before Combo went away Woody hid his friendship with Milky from Combo?
Anyway, I imagine that Combo felt like beatin' on Milky there and then, when he first saw him. Probably refrained from doing so because he was on parole maybe? Anyway, I dunno', maybe Combo and Banjo did make sort of a pact, probably whilst high or whilst drinking, a pact to do Milky over so to speak. Maybe when Combo sobered up he wasn't so into the idea and started to feel anxious about it, but then on getting high again at the end of the film
On the other hand, maybe there was no pact. I'm quite sure Combo, since we have first seen him, has always been an angry man, a confused man who struggles to make sense of the world and struggles to accept new people too. Especially in the film I think he was a man filled with rage. I think actually when I first watched the film, that my thought was that Combo was getting high with Milky in order to get to know him better, to maybe give him a chance, but he had a violent reaction with the weed and feelings of jealousy and resentment crept in when Milky spoke of his large, loving family, the culture and such. These are things that Combo hasn't really ever had the pleasure of knowing, a large family filled with love, the opportunity to sit round a table and eat a great national meal y'know. I think he pretty much had no immediate family, and that his closest to family was the likes of Banjo, Woody and Lol.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the celtic soul brothers and the strong devoted!"
- when he first saw Woody and the old gang again after comin' out of the can (of course I'm quite sure the old gang were all new faces to him, except for Woody himself).
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lisa-xo — 12 years ago(November 23, 2013 12:57 PM)
this may have been said before but i really don't feel like reading all of the replies right now (lol).
i agree that Combo is a complex character, but i don't think the attack was premeditated. i think Milky was probably the weed connection for the group and that is just always who their hook up is. i think the two bonded while smoking weed, getting high, talking, laughing, etc. i don't think that was an act on either character's part.
i think Banjo did say something like "i want in on that" and by that time, Combo has started to regret attacking Milky to near-death. so by Banjo saying that, he attacked him so Banjo couldn't attack Milky. -
sjrmanc — 10 years ago(September 22, 2015 06:48 AM)
Combo was hurting already, and think the attack on milky came, because milky who was black, had everything combo didn't, family, friends, good life ect and combo resented it. He had fell out with woody so couldn't ask him for weed ect, but milky was nave for going with him.
As for banjo, he just said wrong thing at the wrong time, and was in combo's line of fire after milky was down.