I adore this film. I love how Parker is the one with the conscience but in the end we see Longbaugh has one too (the way he ends up deciding to leave the girl alone, and the way he risked his own ass by trying to save his partner despite knowing it would get him killed). Sarno let them bleed out, and we never learn why. I think it was because he actually did respect them and shared a bond with Longbaugh, and by letting them bleed out they were able to "get their house in order".
@@MrGW95 With all due respect, I think that’s only a problem if you’re not okay with a cast filled with morally questionable characters. I enjoy it, myself. The only part of the movie I object to is the torture bit, because I already get it at that point.
This monologue was probably one of the deepest explorations into the inconsistencies of morality and how it affects individuals in a powerful way. Great character internal conflict. I haven't seen many well written movies with this kind of content in forever. It's on my top 3 favorite monologues in movie history. Robert Shaw's 'Indianapolis' monologue in Jaws has to be my number 1 favorite.
"shes not alone! theres some old guy hiding behind the diner. hell come and get her as soon as we leave!" I love how parker & longbaugh each have information and keep it from each other.
@@bobbyologun1517 he was just trying to school him. The film makes it seem Parker has a conscience when Longbaugh doesn't, but we see in the end that Longbaugh does too, and decided the girl had enough. He also walks into certain death to rescue Parker (and also yells his position just to let Parker know he was still alive). I think Sarno respected them for trying to do right by his daughter and he lets them live so they can get their soul in order before they die.
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 "I think Sarno respected them for trying to do right by his daughter and he lets them live so they can get their soul in order before they die." By shooting Longbaugh in the femoral regions of both of his legs so he can bleed out.
Phillipe's reward for saving her is almost a shotgun blast to the face and Benecio makes sure he knows it. Morality as we understand it, God rewarding the good and punishing the evil, is completely inconsequential and arbitrary. Why does the child molester deserve Phillipe's pity and not all the other people he killed? Because his prayer just happened to wake him up in the moment. Just random stimulus that had no connection to the actions he was taking or the consequences of them. I feel like that's what The Way of the Gun is about. There are definitely actions that you take and the consequences for those actions. It's not that morality doesn't exist in this world. But the law of the world isn't God's law. It's the law of $15 million dollars and what people will do for it. It's the law of who has a gun and who doesn't. It's basically saying that once you step off the path of polite society with their constructs of justice and morality, all you have left is partnership and skill. Making a mistake is like committing a sin, and you will be punished for it worse than you will for any crime.
@@aydon1276Absolutely well said! I often think of my younger brother and I when I rewatch this one. If we were in their places, he’d be the one questioning what we were doing, and I’d totally be the one asking “You think it *matters*?” That’s the way I think of it - they’ve already made their bed. They’ve hurt and killed people. His reaction to the prayer doesn’t absolve him. They’re Badmen. They’ve done what they’ve done.
Because he saw she picked the shotgun up, said his jacket was inside so the other one would go in and test the water, then he saw the jacket was hanging on the van
I think it was more an instinctive reaction to being grabbed from behind and thrown against the wall. And he kept it there while he was still processing what just happened.
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One of my absolute favorite movies. What makes it unique is that there are no "good guys", just varying shades of bad.
Life is about perspective
I adore this film. I love how Parker is the one with the conscience but in the end we see Longbaugh has one too (the way he ends up deciding to leave the girl alone, and the way he risked his own ass by trying to save his partner despite knowing it would get him killed). Sarno let them bleed out, and we never learn why. I think it was because he actually did respect them and shared a bond with Longbaugh, and by letting them bleed out they were able to "get their house in order".
I think that's probably the problem this movie had no obvious bad or good guy
Juliette Lewis was the only objectively "good" character
@@MrGW95 With all due respect, I think that’s only a problem if you’re not okay with a cast filled with morally questionable characters. I enjoy it, myself. The only part of the movie I object to is the torture bit, because I already get it at that point.
This monologue was probably one of the deepest explorations into the inconsistencies of morality and how it affects individuals in a powerful way. Great character internal conflict. I haven't seen many well written movies with this kind of content in forever. It's on my top 3 favorite monologues in movie history. Robert Shaw's 'Indianapolis' monologue in Jaws has to be my number 1 favorite.
Indio in For A Few Dollars More is one of my favorites
"shes not alone! theres some old guy hiding behind the diner. hell come and get her as soon as we leave!" I love how parker & longbaugh each have information and keep it from each other.
Yes but they work perfectly together as one unit.
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 Longbaugh also saw the gun in Dr Painters medical bag but let Parker find out for himself lol
@@bobbyologun1517 he was just trying to school him. The film makes it seem Parker has a conscience when Longbaugh doesn't, but we see in the end that Longbaugh does too, and decided the girl had enough. He also walks into certain death to rescue Parker (and also yells his position just to let Parker know he was still alive). I think Sarno respected them for trying to do right by his daughter and he lets them live so they can get their soul in order before they die.
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 ay they both have a bushido code good film!
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 "I think Sarno respected them for trying to do right by his daughter and he lets them live so they can get their soul in order before they die."
By shooting Longbaugh in the femoral regions of both of his legs so he can bleed out.
“You know what I’m gonna tell god when I see him… I was framed”
Phillipe's reward for saving her is almost a shotgun blast to the face and Benecio makes sure he knows it. Morality as we understand it, God rewarding the good and punishing the evil, is completely inconsequential and arbitrary. Why does the child molester deserve Phillipe's pity and not all the other people he killed? Because his prayer just happened to wake him up in the moment. Just random stimulus that had no connection to the actions he was taking or the consequences of them.
I feel like that's what The Way of the Gun is about. There are definitely actions that you take and the consequences for those actions. It's not that morality doesn't exist in this world. But the law of the world isn't God's law. It's the law of $15 million dollars and what people will do for it. It's the law of who has a gun and who doesn't. It's basically saying that once you step off the path of polite society with their constructs of justice and morality, all you have left is partnership and skill. Making a mistake is like committing a sin, and you will be punished for it worse than you will for any crime.
Really well said :)
@@aydon1276Absolutely well said! I often think of my younger brother and I when I rewatch this one. If we were in their places, he’d be the one questioning what we were doing, and I’d totally be the one asking “You think it *matters*?”
That’s the way I think of it - they’ve already made their bed. They’ve hurt and killed people. His reaction to the prayer doesn’t absolve him. They’re Badmen. They’ve done what they’ve done.
I was framed. Great line
The ultimate anti-heroes
It's so great because even the bad good and ugly still gets to meet God😇 moral of his story
This movie has the best dialogue
Trust No One, Zero.
Best ever, Framed, bbwwaaahhaaaa
It always matters
That's her real life dad in this scene
This was a great scene,didn’t need the background mood music though.
I like the crickets in the Darkness at the Edge of Town.
Greatest opening scene ever.
This scene is mid-movie...
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"You can refer to me as mr.peckerwood" I know that isn't the right line but it's too funny to say any other way lol
The ending quote was sampled in a song. But for the life of me i cant remember. Does anyone know?
I heard it here first: NEGATIVE XP-Murder On My Mind {Up to The Wolves Archive}
Maybe you did too?
@owenw6490 hell yeah thanks I remember now
Work 💯 ea.
You earn. Make your #$.
Why he got the gun to his chin, didn’t he just save the guy?
Because he saw she picked the shotgun up, said his jacket was inside so the other one would go in and test the water, then he saw the jacket was hanging on the van
@@starwarsroo2448 I mean… I saw the jacket hanging on the van too….
The editing doesn’t do the scene much justice.
It’s pretty clunky.
@@soundshape6496 Parker was pissed that Longbaugh used him as bait for Robin.
I think it was more an instinctive reaction to being grabbed from behind and thrown against the wall. And he kept it there while he was still processing what just happened.
this was a terrible scene, felt like it was written by a 12 yr old.
You're a great goddamned idiot. Congrats.
Uh sure...or an Oscar winner, which it was.
Looks like someone's fantasy script was rejected
I agree it was an awful scene. I watched the movie last night, very hit and miss.
@@danielstack4158 you’re a moron