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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHEY! Ever seen Once Upon a Time in America? (Spoiler Alert)
At the end, the big political wheel played by James Woods who was a hoodlum-turned-political-crook-of-the-highest-order, walks out of his mansion with all the party guests there, and he knows he's doomed and going to jail. there is a garbage truck waiting. Its engine starts and then drives past Woods standing on the curb. When it passes, Woods is gone and all you can see is the garbage augur turning and the assumption is made that he threw himself onto the augur and was chewed up and spit into the trash truck.
Just sayin'...
Of course it's only a film and you cannot expect any real-life narcissistic criminal sociopath politico to do something like that to conveniently end the story. It would have to be much more complex...
jcgoldie
(11,584 posts)Sounds like a pretty appropriate fate for James Woods.
John Fante
(3,479 posts)(SPOILER)
Noodles (Robert DeNiro) violently rapes not one, but two women in this film, and I'm supposed to feel sympathy for him at the end? That's just bad storytelling.
"Deborah's Theme" is arguably Ennio Morricine's finest hour. It's so beautiful, it hurts.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,044 posts)There was the implication that Tuesday Weld's character enjoyed being raped. Fuck that shit.
PCIntern
(25,347 posts)and she was not even straight!
That's why it's a movie.
lame54
(35,138 posts)Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)PCIntern
(25,347 posts)Rough film.