Why keep a whore like that?
She tries to bang your best friend, accuses your best friend of coming on to her, then actually bangs your enemy and then again bangs another enemy. Who in their right mind keeps a whore like that? Weak sauce.
shareWho would keep her? A stubborn, honorable man who loves her. He has committed himself to care for her, and it is his commitment that drives his behavior.
It's part of the point of the movie, and if you have never known anyone like Virgil, then you just may not have met the right people to enable you to understand him. Or Allie, for that matter.
But he's real enough, and so is she.
So he likes being a cuckold?
shareNo, but he understands that she needs to do what she does. And he is stubborn, as I said. When he commits, he commits. In the next two books in the series, he goes looking for her, to get her out of whatever trouble she is sure to get into, because he told her he would take care of her.
People do behave like that, sometimes. They have a code of honor, and they abide by it. It's not so common in the modern world, maybe, but it isn't unheard of. It also happens to be one of Virgil's characteristics. He doesn't give it up just because it's a problem to him. It's illustrated again in the final scenes. Hitch kills Bragg because Virgil won't, as he says, kill without a legal justification. Hitch is more practical, even though he knows that Virgil can't approve of what he does. That's why he asks V for a favor: "Let it go this one time, because I've never asked you for anything before." And V does it, out of friendship.
Complete rationalizing. Any man with any self respect would kick the dirty whore to the curb.
shareWell, you are certainly entitled to your opinion.
But he didn't, did he? No doubt he needed your astute advice on how to handle his life.
How old are you, anyway? I guess not old enough to know much about how real people might behave. Or else so young you just have to try for smartassery.
Or maybe just can't get a date? I can see why.
Rather than a point of honor, he probaly was simply in love with her which sounds over simplistic but it's as obvious as that. He didn't have the "inner strength" to free himself of her.
shareThe Allie character was so contrary to normal Hollywood Western damsels.
She was very hard to like by most audience standards.
I think Allie was the TRUE villian in this movie.
She was a much greater villian than Jeremy Iron's Bragg ever was.
It also allowed Virgil to show his strength (or is it weakness?) by staying with her.
I think, if the film-makers had shown Mrs. French having some history causing her actions it would have been easier for the viewer. As it is, we have to suffer and wonder why she is so quick to change protectors.
Rene was very brave to play such a conflicted character.
"You had me at Hello, I mean giddy-up."
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Ye Olde Sig Line:
It should be "I can NOT care less."
You are at the lowest level of caring.
Some people were so hung up on her looks that they entirely failed to notice RZ holding her own with three very fine actors. And it is a brave portrayal. A lot of actresses wouldn't have gone there. But then, many other actors will do a lot for Ed Harris, who has great respect in the acting world.
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