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The mob would have found him in the Bahamas...

posted 8 years ago by LuvvieHowell
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Carlito really loses all of his critical-thinking abilities...many of these have been addressed here (ignoring Benny's threat to kill him, not paying attention to Saso's 'tip' that Pachanga is a spy, trusting his coke-head lawyer) but the one that REALLY stood out to me was killing off all the "made guys" in the train station and not considering the consequences.

Let's say, just for grins, that Benny wasn't at the train station, and Carlito and Gail DO make it onto the 11:30 train for Miami. Word would have made it fast to the Italians that he had murdered a bunch of their guys, and the mob has lots of influence in Miami.

Even if he had managed to shimmy thru Florida and get on a plane to the Bahamas, the mafia would have thought nothing of sending a couple of hit men to the islands to finish him off.

Anyone agree? Disagree?

[–] stones78 8 years ago

Agree...just like the Mob from the film "Casino"; they found a guy in Costa Rica.

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[–] LuvvieHowell 8 years ago

Yes, I know it's a dream, but a poorly thought out one that would have ended up getting him (and his girlfriend) killed anyways. Maybe it's just more evidence that Carlito is losing his edge, or his grip on reality, or just control in general...

Thanks for the answers, guys...

[–] Hollywood_Square_Contestant 8 years ago

That's exactly what I was thinking.

Carlito would have been safest if he had just defected to the Soviet Union.

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[–] Tony_Montana_83 8 years ago

Well he tells Kleinfield "you just killed us both" he pretty much knows he's a dead man walking regardless but he's gotta try!

[–] HelpMeRhonda (1155) 5 years ago

Exactly, like he says, they were beyond the point of no return.

It’s just crazy how it all snowballed. Such is life. He’s a tragic hero no doubt.

[–] Boricanator (1370) 4 years ago

It’s not like he had a choice. The mafia guys were chasing him. He didn’t start shooting until the first one shot at him.

There are also several things I can think of.

No one really knew if he was there with Kleinfeld. The Boss was dead and well as the first son. The four mobsters went to the club to see if Carlito was involved. They didn’t figure it out until Carlito lied. Then they started chasing him.

It’s possible that if Carlito got away, no one would really know it was him that killed them. It was the 1970s and there aren’t cameras everywhere.

[–] Bruschj (20) 2 years ago

I want to believe this also, but there were so so many eyewitnesses though, and he was wearing that same leather coat all movie. The description would have gotten out and reached the right people pretty easily.

[–] Heisenberg (6354) 4 years ago

I would shoot a sequel to Carlito's Way with that story:
Benny Blanco didn't really happen as he was indeed killed by Pachanga after rolling down the stairs, like the poor little cunt that he is.

The movie starts off with Carlito and Gail looking out of the window of that train, safely watching New York getting away. We cut to the Bahamas 10 years later, where he's mr nobody car dealer with a fake name, raising his kid and fucking his wife.
Than somebody notices him for some extraordinary circumstance, like he wins a lot of money but doesn't want it to avoid the newspaper or something of that sort. So he raises suspicions in spite of his carefullness.
Then the mafia shows up at his door, and he has to take some action to clear his past or fight it.
So he has to go back to his old gansgsta's ways. Only this time he does it for real, begrudgingly but nonetheless determined to do anthing it takes to save his family.

The cool thing is, we would get to see Carlito finally be the legend everybody talks about in the first movie but we never got to see.

[–] Boricanator (1370) 2 years ago

That sounds like “A History of Violence”.

[–] Heisenberg (6354) 2 years ago

I guess slightly similar in premise, but AHOV is about him fighting with his own past self, pretending Joey never existed and never admitting it to his own family and self.

In Carlito 2 he knows who he is, and so does Gail, and above all so does the audience . So the film is not about that, it's about him being pulled back in the street no matter how hard he tries, because the street needs Carlito to rule it.

[–] jpssteveshanahan (403) 5 months ago

That's exactly what I figured! It would have ended like "Empire". Starring John Leguizamo, coincidentally.