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Favourite scene in The Vigilante

posted 19 years ago by move-7
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Well there's a difference betwen favourite!! and best!!
So I think that I'll put the scene's here rather than in the Best Scene.

So I'll put it here again.

My favouite scene was the part in Jail where Rake (Woody Strode) saves Eddie (Robert Forster) from becoming a Bitch in the prison showers and does over those two other inmates.
Actually I like the "Pow" part just before that .... just before you see Rake come in .

My second favourite scene is where Prago (Don Blakely) and the gang's lawyer Eisenberg (Joe Spinell) are in the court toilets and Prago gives Eisenberg the money or rather puts it on the ledge or something and Eisenberg with that graceul sweep of the hand , palms it.
Great acting and motion !

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[–] blur81 19 years ago

There are so many great scenes in this film but some scenes which are memorable for more are the car chase under the Gowanus Expressway and when Forster throws the guy from the tower. I have passed these sites in Brooklyn countless times so they are a bit nostalgic for me.

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[–] Postal_Dude_Paradise_AZ 15 years ago

The execution of the two cops in the car when the van shows up!

"Welcome to Burger Shot moƒuckaaa !!!"

[–] j-taylor-goddard 15 years ago

Can't see how that could be a favourite scene - memorable, but unecessary, overlong (watching someone getting shot continuously for 15-20 seconds with automatic weapons is very uncomfortable), and degrading to anyone who's been killed in the line of duty or stands for law and order.

I still question the scene's purpose too - it doesn't really go anywhere, and I don't quite get what's happening either (who's looking for who, why the two run into each other). It seems that the gang are trying to set up the vigilantes for the cop's murder, but it's all a bit vague.

[–] andymcneill75 14 years ago

That scene was crazy! Also featured the dude who played Artie Clay in King Of NY!
The finale with Narino chasing Prago and throwing him from tower was class!
Fred kicked azz in this film and Forster was cool too!

[–] j-taylor-goddard 14 years ago

That would be Frank Gio! Strange to see him as a cop - he plays heavies usually, and very well too, seeing he's a real-life Bronx hardman!