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If you were Tom Cruise's character...


... would you have taken the 10,000 dollar cheque money offered by father to leave the daughter alone?

What if you for instance DIDN'T LOVE HER?

Also, how arrogant and stupid of him to assume that even after he DEMONSTRATIVELY REFUSED to take money like that, after he comes back, the father still somehow insists that "he came back for money", like, DUH!!!

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I’m thinking he meant ‘back to try and marry into money by duping my daughter’.

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Did he? I thought the father meant what he said when he said "He's only come back for one thing, for the money", if he meant the other or something else, he must've subtly implied it but it was hard to notice or suspect in all his shouting.

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I would have told the father "I will leave your daughter alone, upon the condition you provide me with an equal or better alternative". Something along the lines of a young Sophia Vergara, Selma Hayek, Corinne Bohrer, etc.

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Haha - OR money, IF you're into that sort of thing ala Good Charlotte song about "not liking boys, by girls, but liking cars and money". :)

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Although Tom Cruise's character might have gone for that option too. Remember also how in "The Firm" (1993) he (his character of Rich McTeere in that movie) willingly cheated on Jeanne Tripplehorn's character with that young lady stranger on the beach, much to the massive dismay of her for a while even if at the end she ultimately has forgiven him for it, albeit, in all of the events that went on in that film, even more dramatic than this one - Cocktail, it took her and him to ride on a wave of near death and I might be wrong, but I THINK she even accidentally killed Gene Hackman's character in that film, although maybe NOT, although Tom Cruise at least helped to cause the death of one assassin in that film and MAYBE killed that corrupt security guy by kicking him multiple times unconscious and calling him a "sick son of a bitch".

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