Grindhouse

[Jetbaby]

Originally Posted by Mr. Marshmallow

Any information be it good or bad can become tiresome if you pour it on too thickly. And funny thing you mention the "little girl" bit because that kind of disappointed me. Kurt Russell was awesome as this psychopath, but I felt the breakdown to crying and saying "I'm sorry" was really out of character.

It took away his homicidal bad ass image and just made it unrealistic, I mean I've never heard of a killer actually breaking down in apology unless he's in jail or confession or something. And I especially found it out of place because he was doing it to a bunch of GIRLS, the same people he targets daily.

It's obvious he hates women and doesn't give a damn what he does to them, so to me, actually admitting an apology to a bunch of rowdy girls (who actually are probably going to have a hard time explaining this to the cops) looks really weird for the character that was established with him.

Actually, I thought his crumbling was rather in-keeping with his character. Here's why: this is a murderer who kills not with his own hands, but with his car - which implies that he's not one who likes the intense 'intimacy', if you will, of killing his victim up close and personal. Instead, he hides himself behind a ton of steel and lets that do the killing for him. Also, it's not as if he blatantly kills his victim so that it's obvious it's a murder - he hides the motive behind the false pretense that the killings were as a result of an accident. In my mind, these facts set him up as a coward. Also, he kills women, not men, because in his mind he always has the upper hand with them. This also sets him up as a bully. And, as we know, most bullies are cowards at heart.

As far as the apology's concerned, it's not as if he shuffled up to them between classes and mumbled "Sorry for the trying to kill you and stuff." The apology comes only after he's been shot, chased and rammed repeatedly by the girls until he can't escape. He has completely lost control of the situation, and when faced with this role reversal and the very real possibility that he's going to die, he takes the coward's route and tries to apologize.

So in that respect, yeah - I think Stuntman Mike's meltdown was, while unexpected, a fitting response to the situation, given his character. Of course, this is just one person's opinion - your mileage may vary.