Straw Dogs (1971)
Average Joe: mild-mannered mathematician David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman)
What turns him?: A summer of being belittled by his boorish Cornish neighbours. Their rape of his wife (Susan George) is, for once, almost incidental.
Geek postal: Holed up in his cottage, an army of locals intent on breaking in, Sumner is outgunned and outnumbered.
But he’s a genius, right? So he uses the grey cells to lay a series of fiendish traps, notably leaving a primed man trap on the living room rug.
And like Anton Chekov might have said, “Put a bloody big man trap on the floor, somebody’s going to get mangled.”
Next: The Brave One
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BigAndyT
Nov 26th 2009, 19:37
Paddy in dead mans shoes surely?
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metalgatesolid
Nov 26th 2009, 19:39
What about Frank Castle in the "not bad but not brilliant" Punishers?
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fezdaferret
Dec 1st 2009, 4:04
what about Liam Neesons Character Bryan Mills from Taken, surely one of the best films of last year
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