...If some rich brat killed your dog, who´s been around you for over 10 years.
I don´t care if the person who did it was a boy or a girl, black or white, or even Jesus f´ing Christ, i would´ve made it my life-goal to kill the fckers!
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Yup out there in the wilderness you always have a piece on you. You never know when little punks or crazy ass rednecks are gonna start *beep*
If I could start again, a million miles away...
Every single one of you have missed the point of the story. It's not about what we would do... or even what he should've done. It's about what he did (or attempted to do).
He didn't want revenge. He just wanted the boys to man up to what they did. Take responsibility before before they transgressed into worse behavior someday. He was trying to help them... and no one cared. Not the law, not the parents and certainly not the boys (w/ the exception of Harry).
ding ding ding. winner!
shareIn short, he was trying to stop one of them from doing what his son did.
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Just saw this movie, loved it, but to answer the question here, i would have ripped their balls off and fed them to them. And no dessert before bedtime.
I see purple people eaters
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I always had mutts. I rescue them.
And if someone would just make a fun of MY dog because of her breed, or just say something not nice, these people will see the worst of me.
I lost my dog recently to brain tumor. Will adopt again.
And if some sicko even touches my pet, I will plead temporary insanity in the court.
Well as has been said, the point of the movie is what the man did, and he did the honorable thing.
In answer to the question though, what would I have done? I would have seen to it those kids would not live, one way or another. I hold animals/dogs in a much higher esteem than I do people. The only excuse one has to kill a dog is if that dog is going to kill you... even then it depends why the dog was trying to kill you.
I would not have taken the high road that Avery did. If I were Avery, the film would have ended quite differently and much more cathartically.
This is how I have re-envisioned climax:
SPOILERS BELOW:
The shootout commences as before; those who are shot are shot. McCormick dies, as does Harold. The only two left alive are Avery and Danny. Danny whimpers. He is terrified and in deep pain. Avery approaches him with pistol raised. As he closes in, Danny raises his gun and attempts to shoot Avery but Avery stomps on his wrist before he can aim and the gun discharges as his hand hits the dirt.
Danny looks up at Avery. Through clenched teeth, he utters, "F--- you!"
Avery replies something to the effect of, "Acting tough, isn't going to help you, Danny."
His words prompt Danny to uncontrollable sobs. Then Ludlow silences Danny's wails with a single gunshot.
Avery wipes his prints from the gun. Then he kneels before Harold's body and, with some regret, plants the weapon in his palm. Then he leaves the crime scene.
I own a cat: I would have sliced their wrists and played in their warm blood while they watched each other bleed to death, get off on an insanity plea and get a new cat.
"Sometimes you just have to piss in the sink." - C. Bukowski
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if that would have been my dog ..no amount of begging and pleading would have saved them..id have annihilated them..full stop
shareOh I would have turned into a total psycho. With my war training, my store gone, there would be nothing left.
First off, burn down the Doust residence, with or without them inside. It would be ironic and tragic.
Then I would go after the McCormacks. They all deserve to suffer except for the mother and Harold. And since it was his birthday I would let him live.
Then I commit seppuku if I didn't die in a glorious and gory gun battle with the rich father, Pete, and Daniel.
Oh yeah. Then I would leave a note for the reporter woman. Saying she can use this to get her a new reporting job.
castration. knock him out handcuff and shackle him and cut his scrotum off.
now that would be justice.
I’d likely not kill them, but they’d be damned sorry to be alive for the rest of their lives.
“Your thinking is untidy, like most so-called thinking today.” (Murder, My Sweet)
It is interesting how the "revenge fantasy" replies keep on coming, even after it was clearly pointed out by the posts on Nov 10 & 13 of 2008 that this movie's whole point was about exactly the opposite.
In fact, in all of your hot headed responses, you posters who would take violent revenge as your first course of action, are behaving exactly like the ones who got killed in the story.
The fact that you would be unbelievably upset if that were done to your dog is not arguable, we all would feel the same rage. Expressing that on the internet is easy to do, too.
The point of the movie was that life is far more complex than your first, gut reaction. I am sorry that so many of you obviously missed that.
I would've waited for the opportunity to spray cyanid either on him directly
or in his food at some diner...
Painful death after a few hours. A bullet is too good for monsters like him.