I was in 10th grade when I last saw this 34 years ago. It was always something I wondered about.
shareDo you think Carol deserved being apologized to? I'm not a big fan of violence against women but Carol was a sniveling dumbass over and over.
Her biggest redeeming quality was her sacrifice to get her husband out of prison. That was pretty brave.
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The question should really be... did Steve McQueen apologize to Ali MacGraw for slapping her?
But to answer your question, no, Doc never apologizes.
Hey there, Johnny Boy, I hope you fry!
I always have wondered if the slapping scene was McQueen's spur-of-the-moment idea for making the interplay more realistic, or if perhaps it was something that Peckinpaugh suggested to him privately. In any case, it was certainly effective, if only because it was blatantly spontaneous and believable.
shareHe was going to and then he remembered it was 1972.
sharewhen she says ..'no more about him (Banyon)'. Doc says... 'ok, no more about him.' It's as close to an apology as Doc can get.
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Doc has no interest in apologizing for slapping a woman around; it's not like she can sue him for harassment...or call the cops on him. (By that point in the movie, she'd killed Beynon, so she was guilty of murder.)
This is a big like expecting someone in The Sopranos to apologize to a person of color for a racist epithet. Once you're in that kind of life, you don't settle your grievances by going to HR.
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