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the light humor of rape

posted 14 years ago by zimbo_the_donkey_boy
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I realize that comic westerns about bank robbers make light of dozens of deaths but in this movie, Charles Bronson's character also raped Jill Ireland's character, who enjoyed his lovemaking so much that she fell in love with him. Yet this is a sweet comedy???

As for that love, why did all the townspeople immediately hate Ireland's character? Did they psychically divine that Ireland had fallen in love with Bronson, before she told them? Were they told by one of the gang, before they were hung, that Bronson, who'd been left to guard Ireland, was such a good lovemaker that surely Ireland simply must have fallen in love with him? Was a half hour chopped out of the version of film I saw on tv?

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[–] zimbo_the_donkey_boy 14 years ago

Thanks for the info. You're right, I haven't seen ANY tv soaps (and only complain when I accidentally watch a movie soap).

[–] treeline1 13 years ago

I agree with you. I don't find rape funny and I didn't understand why the townsfolk hated her, either. I'm glad it wasn't just me. Seems to me the last thing she would have done was cooperate with an author and then publicize the incident. And the townsfolk certainly would have shunned her. I get that it's a satire, but it just didn't work for me. And I wonder if Graham was the first man she had dallied with since her husband died.

Also, a year in prison in those days would have been hellish and being sent to an asylum even worse. The sparkling clean cell and the healthy inmates weren't very realistic, were they.

I know this was seen as a fun movie by those who wanted to watch the married couple together, but the script didn't amuse me.

[–] ChuckHestonFan 11 years ago

Seems we watched different films. He didn't rape her, he intended to, but then she had sex with him on her own free will after he lied about his impotence. Also, the townspeople condemned her not only because what one of the bandits said, they condemned her because she was dressed up when the posse showed up to her door with the dead body, which in turn made her faint, as one may very well do seeing someone you love die where the cause of death being 385 bullet holes.

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[–] loulou1992 9 years ago

I think we can just say Charlie used his mind powers as he knew she was sex starved and needed that release. more like it ?

[–] loulou1992 9 years ago

yeah actually suprised its not rated higher... its quite wrong some of the things Bronson does