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So what happens to Ernie?


I don't know if this has been asked already, but I do not feel like going through seven pages to look. After the tournament, the gangsters encounter Roy outside the alley and mention that Claudia called Ernie a bunch of times. They say, "Let's go find McCracken!" and the scene ends. We hear in dialogue Claudia mentioning to Roy about giving Ernie a little payback, but why don't we see it? I would've loved to have seen Ernie maybe getting both his hands sliced off in a machine! They should've shown that at the end instead of that outtake of the landlady. Did they delete that scene or what?

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I always thought the movie sort of fell flat in the end there. It's one of the only movies I can think of where the bad guy wins in the end...

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He doesn't really win. Yes, he wins the tournament, which is a surprise because you figure Munson would win it, but in the end, I think he gets a little payback that I'd like to have seen.

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