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Charles Bronson\u2019s family gets murdered, and he takes revenge on every criminal in New York.<\/p>\n
Death Wish is the third and best film that resulting from Charles Bronson and director Michael Winner’s (The Mechanic<\/strong>)\u00a0 many collaborations in the 70\u2019s and 80\u2019s. Based on Brian Garfield\u2019s novel by the same name, the movie treats its source material like Rambo treated the Burmese soldiers at the end of Rambo<\/strong>. Turning the tale of an average man forced to take the law into his own hands when the police fail to do so into a movie about Charles Bronson taking the law into his own hands. In other words, your usual Charles Bronson movie.<\/p>\n While it\u2019s not the original \u201cfather gets wronged by gang and takes revenge\u201d vigilante movie it certainly is the movie that made the (now beaten to death) movie formula popular. If it hadn\u2019t been for Death Wish<\/strong> we might never have seen movies like Commando<\/a>, The Punisher<\/a> or Vigilante<\/a>. It\u2019s also the movie that gave Charles Bronson his international breakthrough, so without it we wouldn\u2019t have had movies like Death Hunt<\/a> or 10 to Midnight<\/a> either.<\/p>\n The movie starts of with a nice trip to Bahamas, or some place that\u2019s Bahamas-ish. Bronson and his wife are on a holiday having fun and junk, but fortunately it\u2019s soon replaced with the crime filled, gritty and gray streets of New York City. It doesn\u2019t take very long before Bronson\u2019s wife and daughter get attacked by Jeff Goldblum and his band of merry rapists.<\/p>\n Shortly thereafter, Bronson receives the news and rushes to the hospital, only to learn that his wife has passed away. It just gets worse because we are soon introduced to his son-in-law, Jack. I fucking hate Jack. I hate him more than any other movie character. He\u2019s a whiny, complaining schmuck who just whines and complains, and then whines some more.<\/p>\n Moving on, Bronson takes an assignment that lets him leave New York and travel to Arizona to work. Paul Kersey, Bronson\u2019s character, is an architect by the way. However he ends up spending just as much, if not more, time at the local gun club\u2019s firing range, and when he leaves he brings a gun home with him. I\u2019ll let you figure out where the movie goes from there.<\/p>\n When it comes to Bronson movies I place this second only to Once Upon a Time in the West<\/strong>, and for reference I place that one amongst the top 5 movies of all time. So Death Wish<\/strong> is a pretty damn good movie. It takes a little while to set up story, but the payoff afterward is more than worth it. It also sports an awesome and really stylish soundtrack that sets a perfect mood for the movie. While some of its sequels might be slightly more entertaining it\u2019s superior to them in every other way, setting a good standard for a pretty damn cool series. (That is, if you ignore the fifth one. But that’s for another time.) Paul Kersey is easily the most badass architect ever, not that that’s saying much, but he really is. It does however take him a heck of long time to become a badass. At first there is not really anything badass about him, except the obvious fact that he is Charles Bronson. In fact, he is even a conscientious objector. Instead of badass stuff he does the following:<\/p>\n –\tworks This is, of course, before he gets his hands on a gun and then all of a sudden he is turned into a badass vigilante. He\u2019s a calm, frightening, vengeance machine that serves justice trough the barrel of his gun. Well, at the end it\u2019s just Bronson being Bronson, but has Bronson ever played Bronson better?<\/p>\n There is the initial vigilante movie trigger kill which is the death of Kersey\u2019s wife. After that, Kersey does what he does best: Design houses. I mean, kill lowlifes and criminals. In all, Bronson kills 10<\/a> scumbags.<\/p>\n After the attack on his wife and daughter, Bronson decides to get himself a little protection. Since he\u2019s a conscientious objector he can\u2019t get himself a gun so he takes out two rolls of quarters and fills a sock with them. The very same night a hoodlum tries to stick him up, only to get surprised by a quarter-filled sock in the face. He runs away empty handed and Bronson runs home to drink some Scotch. (I told you it wasn\u2019t a typo.)<\/p>\n This movie is as straight as they come. The only time it comes even close to being gay is when you see Jeff Goldblum\u2019s ass, but only because he takes his pants off to rape Bronson\u2019s daughter (or rather, “paint her face”). In fact, it\u2019s so straight that the asexual icon, Bronson himself, kisses a woman and tries to have sex with her at a beach. For the record it was his wife. No dice. No dice at all.<\/p>\n In a vigilante movie having a vagina is like being on death row, no matter what you do you are going to die. Or just get severely raped. This movie manages to squeeze in both consequences. Bronson\u2019s wife gets killed and his daughter into raped into catatonia [Editor’s Note: Literally].<\/p>\n Two scumbags are making their way trough a subway until they come to the cart where Bronson is seated. Slowly everyone else has left the cart and it’s only Bronson and the scumbags left. One of them walks over to Bronson and pulls a knife on him. Bronson shoots him trough the newspaper, stands up and guns down the other one before walking off the train. All the while cool as a cucumber.<\/p>\n Since the movie was scripted as a serious drama movie about a man pushed over the edge it\u2019s not loaded with one-liners, but it\u2019s fairly even between a line during the final shootout and the one I chose. The other one might sound better on paper, but since Bronson is barely able to speak when he utters the line during the shootout and subsequently falls down a pile of stairs due the exhaustion straight afterward, I picked this one.<\/p>\n Paul:<\/strong><\/span> What have we become? What do you call people who, when they’re faced with a condition or fear, do nothing about it, they just run and hide?<\/strong> The only good criminal is a dead criminal.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n * I\u2019m not sure what you would call the location of the final shootout. [THE CHALK-OUTLINE] Death Wish (1974): Breakdown by Rutledal Charles Bronson\u2019s family gets murdered, and he takes revenge on every criminal in New York. [THE EXECUTION] Death Wish is the third and best film that resulting from Charles Bronson and director Michael Winner’s (The Mechanic)\u00a0 many collaborations in the 70\u2019s and 80\u2019s. Based on Brian Garfield\u2019s … Read moreWish of Death<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[436],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-death-wish-charles-bronson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32412,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/32412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DW2.jpg\")
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<\/p>\n\u201cWhine, whine, whine.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nOrder has been restored to the universe.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n[HOW BAD-ASS IS THE MAIN CHARACTER?]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nCharles Bronson is Paul Kersey<\/span><\/h3>\n
\n–\tmourns
\n–\tworks some more
\n–\tasks the police if they\u2019ve found the killers
\n–\tmourns
\n–\tvisits his daughter at the loony bin
\n–\tworks a little more
\n–\tlistens to his son-in-law whine
\n–\tmourns
\n–\tand finally works some more<\/p>\n[THE BODY COUNT: 11]
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n[MOST SATISFYING ASS-KICKING]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
Thug Tastes The Sock Of Bronson [not a typo]<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\n[DUDESWEAT AND MACHISMO]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\n[EXPLOITATION AND MISOGYNY]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
[EPIC MOMENT AND BEST ONE-LINER]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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\nJack:<\/strong><\/span> Civilized?<\/strong>
\nPaul:<\/strong><\/span> No.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n[THE MORAL OF THE STORY]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
[THE CHECKLIST: 09 outta 25]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
[\u00a0 ] Athlete(s) Turned \u201cActor\u201d
\n[\u00a0 ] Clinging To The Outside Of A Moving Vehicle
\n[\u00a0 ] Crotch Attack
\n[\u00a0 ] Dialogue Telling Us How Bad-Ass The Main Character(s) Is\/Are
\n[X] Ending Featuring An Ambulance, A Blanket or A Towel
\n[X] Factory\/Warehouse*
\n[\u00a0 ] Giant Explosion(s)
\n[\u00a0 ] Heavy Artillery
\n[X] Improvised Weapon(s)**
\n[\u00a0 ] Macho Mode(s) Of Transportation
\n[\u00a0 ] Main Character Sports Facial Accessory(s)
\n[\u00a0 ] Manly Embrace(s)
\n[\u00a0 ] Notorious Stunt-Man Sighting
\n[X] Passage(s) Of Time Via Montage
\n[X] Politically Fueled Plot Point(s)***
\n[X] Senseless Destruction Of Property
\n[X] Shoot Out(s) and\/or Sword Fight(s)
\n[\u00a0 ] Slow-Motion Finishing Move(s)\/Death(s)
\n[\u00a0 ] Stupid Authoritative Figure(s)
\n[\u00a0 ] Substance Usage and\/or Abuse
\n[\u00a0 ] Tis The Season
\n[\u00a0 ] Torture Sequence(s)
\n[X] Unnecessary Sequel [Death Wish II]
\n[\u00a0 ] Vehicle Chase(s)
\n[X] Vigilante Justice<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n** It\u2019s not on the spot improvised, but it\u2019s homemade.
\n*** The whole movie reflects the crime rise that was taking place in America at the time because of economical\u2026oh, fuck it, it\u2019s not like you know what I\u2019m talking about anyways.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DW8.jpg\")
<\/p>\nThis goes to eleven.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"