If you had a world class hitman after you

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Muse

Lifer
Jul 11, 2001
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In what ways exactly?
That bit with the hitman carrying around a pressurized tank, really, very very stupid. With the advanced ballistic weaponry available today, that bit was just ridiculous. The guy's obsessive behaviors, like when he wanted the store clerk to say something just so, his life hinging on his answer. People don't act like that, but it was a ruse in the movie to get the audience involved. Just stupid stuff. I like some Coen Brothers movies, Fargo is one of my favorites, that's a gem but NCFOM doesn't work for me. The ending too, disappointed.
 

Ichinisan

Lifer
Oct 9, 2002
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That bit with the hitman carrying around a pressurized tank, really, very very stupid. With the advanced ballistic weaponry available today, that bit was just ridiculous. The guy's obsessive behaviors, like when he wanted the store clerk to say something just so, his life hinging on his answer. People don't act like that, but it was a ruse in the movie to get the audience involved. Just stupid stuff. I like some Coen Brothers movies, Fargo is one of my favorites, that's a gem but NCFOM doesn't work for me. The ending too, disappointed.

I absolutely loved the idea of the pressurized tank thing (meant for slaughtering cattle). As a plot device, it had a very good reason to exist. No bullets, no shells, no gunpowder smell, no loud noise, no ballistics fingerprint... Investigators were completely stumped at first because there was no bullet and no exit wound. He used it to discretely blow the locks out of a few doorknobs too.

The other stuff was meant to convey that he was a sociopath with no feeling. Appealing to his human / emotional side in an attempt to dissuade him would be completely pointless.
 
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mizzou

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Jan 2, 2008
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Hold a brandy cup, sit facing the wall. Every 10 seconds say. "I've been expecting you."

At some point he will be there and be astonished at your level of awareness. Then when he engages you in conversation....spin around in your leather chair and fire your derringer.
 

SlitheryDee

Lifer
Feb 2, 2005
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I would challenge her to a duel (my hitman will be a stunning raven haired beauty of course. Think Kate Beckinsale with black hair and you're getting there). She will barely defeat me, but be so impressed by my tenacity and will to live that she falls madly in love with me and gives up her illegitimate lifestyle to be my sex toy forever.
 

John Connor

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Used to be a "hit man" for the Chicago Outfit. Got bored with it and decided to leave on my own instead of in a body bag or witness protection.

If I told you the methods of my trade, well I'd have to kill you.

J/K I was never a hit man. I was a government sanctioned assassin.
 
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