The Stand-Off: Tarantino sure loves his stand-offs, and his debut Dogs climaxes with one of his best.
Mr Blonde is dead. Mr Orange lies in a widening pool of blood. A bleeding cop is strapped to a chair, his right ear missing.
Enter Joe, who accuses Mr Orange of working for the LAPD. Mr White doesn’t believe him. Weapons are drawn in a three-way stand-off between Joe, Nice Guy Eddie and Mr White.
“We’re supposed to be fucking professionals!” yells Mr Pink. It ends badly.
Who Shoots First? Joe Cabot.
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Comex
Jan 7th 2010, 16:29
I hate to be picky, but some of these don't appear to me to be classic "Mexican Stand-Offs." Some of them are just ordinary gunfights or confrontations. A MS has to have an element of uncertainty about just how the parties can possibly resolve the situation with some chance of at least one of them living through it. A simple showdown in the streets is not a MS, especially if one of the parties has an obvious advantage over the other(s). Further, I'm not quite sure why these are "Mental Mexican Stand-Offs." Are there MSs that are NOT mental in some way? That's the whole point...how does each party decide what to do?
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