...in "real life," Brad Wesley would have had Dalton snuffed after the first night. Dalton would have been walking to his car and either taken a knife in the back or a bullet in the head. The film presents him as a mysterious, conflicted, tortured Tai Chi / martial arts guy with Zen wisdom to spare but he was just another meat suit, vulnerable to any attack on his way to the car after closing time. OR They could have just blown up his house, as they did with his landlord or Red's auto shop.
Yeah, it was all about a game of "cat and mouse," and Wesley DOES tell Doc that she needs to "get rid of him." In REAL life, Wesley would have seen Dalton as a threat to his milking the town dry (which he was), and his amusement would have run thin in VERY short order.
In moments like this I think of a TV Guide article that came out during the second season of "The Sopranos." They sat down with a few "real-life New Jersey Wise Guys" and asked them if the show reflected reality.
The ONLY thing they said was NOT realistic was the Christoper Molitssante character. Tony's nephew or not, they called him "one for the trunk" (think "Goodfellas"
and said that he never would have survived the first season without getting whacked.
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