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Cape Fear
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Cape Fear is a 1962 thriller film directed by J. Lee Thompson, based on the novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald.It tells the story of Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck), a Georgia lawyer whose family is threatened by a convicted rapist who's been released from prison. Said rapist, Max Cady (Robert Mitchum), wants vengeance on Bowden — who'd interrupted Cady's attack — for providing the testimony that helped to convict him. After a lengthy game of cat and mouse between the two, Bowden takes his wife (Polly Bergen) and teenaged daughter (Lori Martin) to their houseboat on Cape Fear in North Carolina, hoping to set a trap that will lead to Cady's re-imprisonment. Needless to say, this does not go as planned.The film was successfully remade in 1991 by director Martin Scorsese, with Robert De Niro starring as Cady, Nick Nolte as Bowden, and Jessica Lange and Juliette Lewis as Bowden's wife and daughter; De Niro and Lewis each received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for their performances. In this version, Cady is out to get Bowden because the latter, while defending Cady on a rape charge, deliberately buried possibly-exculpatory evidence about the victim, leading to Cady's conviction. Both films use the music score Bernard Herrmann composed for the original, the main theme of which is famously also used as the Leitmotif for Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons. | |
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Card-Carrying Villain | |
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Card-Carrying Villain: Cady seems to be aware and proud of his vicious nature. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: The remake is this in comparison to the original, partly because of what one could get past the censors in 1991 versus 1962, and partly because of some changes to the story: There's a graphic scene of Cady beating, mutilating, and raping Lori, one of Bowden's colleagues. In the 1962 film, the implied rape occurs off-screen. In the original film, Bowden's actions against Cady were entirely legal and ethical: he was a witness who testified against Cady in a trial. In contrast, in the remake, Bowden was Cady's attorney who intentionally withheld evidence that could have helped Cady's case. Despicable as Cady is, what Bowden did was unethical and probably illegal. In the 1962 film, Bowden has a perfect, loving family with a supportive wife and obedient, dutiful children. In this version, his wife suspects him of adultery (due to past episodes), and his rebellious teenage daughter is initially attracted to Cady. | |
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Hero Antagonist | |
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Hero Antagonist: Bowden given his own difficulties with both his wife Leigh and daughter Danielle—at first cheating on the former outright in the past and then emotionally cheating later on too—and that he buried a report and violated the law and ethics of his job regardless of the morality—is framed as this along with Cady getting more of the focus in turn too. Lee Heller is implied to put whatever personal issues he has with Cady aside to both represent him and condemn Bowden for his lawfully questionable actions—which is in contrast to Bowden burying something that likely would've helped Cady's rape case regardless of whether or not it was morally right. | |
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Feel No Pain | |
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Feel No Pain: Cady does feel pain but he has an extraordinarily high capacity for it, not even blinking when he has scalding water thrown on him. | |
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Scarpia Ultimatum | |
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Scarpia Ultimatum: Cady promises to spare the daughter if Bowden's wife will have sex with him. In the remake, the wife offers herself up as soon as Cady goes for the daughter. | |
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The Sociopath | |
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The Sociopath: Cady, obviously. An unrepentant rapist and murderer who never takes responsibility for his actions and doesn't care who gets hurt as long as he's satisfied. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: It's implied Sam and Leigh didn't tell Danielle the details of what Cady did to get imprisoned or his grudge against Sam. As a result, she doesn't comprehend the full danger he poses and even falls for Cady's flirtations, to the point of disbelieving that he actually killed their dog. Sam doesn't help matters with his angry reaction upon learning Cady got intimate with Danielle at school instead of actually trying to explain things, causing her not to care about the stakeout or want her father to kill Cady. It takes seeing Cady's murders of Graciela and Kesak for her to finally wise up. | |
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Wicked Cultured | |
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Wicked Cultured: In addition to studying every law book he could get his hands on in prison, Cady seems to have a vast knowledge of philosophy, theology, and literature, quoting sources as varied as the Bible, Dante and Nietzsche in conversation. In one scene, he's seen changing radio stations to listen to opera. | |
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Villain Ball | |
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Villain Ball: Cady could've probably gotten Sam disbarred if he'd actually followed through with the legal process, instead of becoming impatient and just going with the violent murderous route. | |
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Remake Cameo | |
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Remake Cameo: The remake featured cameos by Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum, the hero and antagonist (respectively) of the original. Also, Martin Balsam, who played the sympathetic cop role in the original, plays a judge in the remake. | |
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Ãœbermensch | |
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Übermensch: In-universe, Cady seems to fancy himself as one. Early in the film, he's caught reading Also sprach Zarathustra, which at first seems like an aside, but near the end he claims he wants to become "more than human", implying he took the book to heart. | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: Lee Heller likely has reviewed the facts on both sides of the case and chooses to be a Consummate Professional in dealing with Cady as his client. This means his personal feelings are set aside as he does whatever he can to defend Cady. This in turn also contrasts how Bowden didn't set his personal feelings aside and violated Cady's rights while defending him instead. | |
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Framing the Guilty Party | |
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Framing the Guilty Party: Bowden deliberately buried evidence which would have helped Cady's defense at trial, but it was because he knew that Cady was guilty and had previously gotten away with other rape cases, plus the evidence would've only cleared him of charges by unfairly destroying the victim's credibility. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: There's a scene that involves around accidentally slipping on a pool of blood. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The piano wire, the gun, and the lighter fuel. Also, Cady's handcuffs. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: In a meta-sense; where Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum played the upstanding lawyer and the sadistic rapist in the original, their cameo roles in the remake essentially place them on the opposite sides, with Mitchum playing a police detective sympathetic to Bowden's plight and Peck playing Cady's attorney. Peck stated in an interview that he was offered a few different roles to make a cameo as, and immediately asked for the least sympathetic one. Also, Martin Balsam in the original played the Police Chief helping Bowden and in the remake, he played the judge who rules in Cady's favor. | |
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As the Good Book Says... | |
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As the Good Book Says...: Cady is a fundamentalist Pentecostal Christian and often quotes the Bible with wide-eyed furor. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Savalas' character hires three thugs to deal one out to Cady. It turns out to be a case of Mugging the Monster. | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Small Name, Big Ego: Kersek is far less intimidating and badass than his thinks he is, and his attempt at intimidating Cady fails. | |
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He Who Fights Monsters | |
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He Who Fights Monsters: Cady attempted and failed to invoke this with Sam. The worst he got out of him was violent aggression, which was a result of his natural instinct to protect his family. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Max Cady. A Serial Rapist and an homicidal maniac all in one. | |
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Jungles Sound Like Kookaburras | |
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Jungles Sound Like Kookaburras: A kookaburra sound appears during the third act of the film, along the Cape Fear River in North Carolina, USA. Given that a kookaburra sound is usually assumed to be a monkey, note that there are neither kookaburras nor monkeys native to the American South. | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill: Bowden decides life in prison is better than death for Cady. | |
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Office Golf | |
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Office Golf: Kersek is shortly seen golfing in his office. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: The otherwise psychopathic and seemingly amoral Cady harbors absolutely no ill will towards the judge or prosecutor at his trial for putting him away. According to him, they, like law enforcement generally, were just doing their jobs. This is in contrast to his hatred for Bowden, who he blames for intentionally failing in his job as defense attorney. | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Adapted Out: Bowden also has a son in the novel, who is non-existent in either film. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Cady is walking up the stairs to the courtroom and brushes against woman carrying a file, causing her to drop the file. He neither excuses himself nor helps her pick up the file. Clearly introducing him as the worst kind of person. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: Cady rapes and beats Lori because he knows the incident will create strife between Sam Bowden and his wife Leigh. It was a very risky move on Cady's part that succeeded because Lori chose not to press charges out of fear fear of testifying and being cross-examined in front of/by her colleagues. Had she done so (as would have been quite likely), Cady would have been arrested and probably spent the rest of his life in prison, putting an end to his plot against Bowden and his family. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: Gregory Peck's character mentions Korea. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Both Bowdens' past infidelities, requiring therapy and forcing them to move. Leigh suspected Lori and Sam were having an affair, thus explaining some phone conversation in hushed tones (actually, he was checking on her after Cady attacked her). | |
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Recycled Soundtrack | |
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Recycled Soundtrack: The film reuses Bernard Herrmann's score from the original, albeit conducted by Elmer Bernstein. The music that is heard at the climax of the movie was a piece of music that Herrmann had written for Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain, but that piece of music was never used. Bernstein had always liked that original score and he asked Martin Scorsese if it could be used in Cape Fear. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The Bowdens are traumatized by the events of the story but survive, while Cady either goes back to prison for life (1962 original) or drowns in the river (1991 remake). | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Bowden, as Cady's defense lawyer, had the sworn duty to give his client the best defense. The best defense would have involved adding additional humiliation on top of grievous injury to the poor girl Cady raped, by exposing her sexual history. Bowden decided "to hell with it" and half-assed his job, wishing Cady to go to jail. | |
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Tranquil Fury | |
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Tranquil Fury: Mitchum has this quiet but insistent animal terror underlying everything he does. | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
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Shirtless Scene: Cady has several, all played for the same kind of menace as a Full-Frontal Assault. | |
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Date Rape | |
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Date Rape: Cady's encounter with Diane Taylor (Lori Davis in the remake) ends up this way. | |
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Death by Adaptation | |
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Death by Adaptation: Kersek. In the original, the private detective survived, but here he doesn’t fare nearly as well thanks to being merged with a character who did die. | |
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Gory Discretion Shot | |
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Gory Discretion Shot: When Cady attacks the girl at the hotel, her frantic grab at the door just pulls it shut, leaving only a narrow crack for the camera to see through. | |
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Break the Cutie | |
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Break the Cutie: Perky, upbeat Lori is brutally assaulted and raped by Cady. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: Unlike in the remake, Cady has no legitimate reason to begrudge his conviction in the original. His Rage Against the Legal System comes out of left field. | |
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Book Dumb | |
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Book Dumb: Cady was illiterate well into adulthood but proves himself to be extremely intelligent, training himself in the law enough to act as his own defense. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The movie begins with chilling music and a blood-red negative shot on the daughter's eyes, zooming out into a positive shot of her giving a speech in class. The final scene inverts this, starting with a positive shot of her monologing An Aesop and zooming in on her eyes, turning the shot into a b/w and then red negative. In a more extreme example that extends to the production logos, the movie also begins and ends with ambient audio of running water, thunder, and insect calls. | |
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Combat Breakdown | |
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Combat Breakdown: Played very realistically. By the end of the final fight both men are staggering around, throwing weak punches and sluggishly trying to hit each other with rocks. Despite being much stronger than Bowden, eventually Cady's injuries catch up to him and he drowns in the surf when he's dragged under by sinking debris. | |
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Human Notepad | |
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Human Notepad: Cady has lines from the Bible tattooed all over his body. | |
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Rage Against the Legal System | |
| Cape Fear / int_56e8b9a6 | comment |
Rage Against the Legal System: Cady's vendetta against Bowden is because he was responsible for putting him in jail; he was a key witness in the 1962 version, and in the remake he decided to sabotage Max's defense by sitting on favorable evidence. Cady, however, harbors no malice towards the prosecutor or the judge as he reasoned they were just doing their jobs, and his wrath is solely targeted at Bowden for screwing him over. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: When Bowden suspects that Cady is stalking him, the first thing he does is go to the police, but they can't do anything because they lack any evidence of wrongdoing. The one helpful cop suggests using his family as bait. Bowden doesn't care for the implications. | |
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Disrupting the Theater | |
| Cape Fear / int_5a8c9252 | comment |
Disrupting the Theater: One of the remake’s most famous scenes. Early in the film, Cady follows Sam and his family into a cinema and sits in front of them. He laughs obnoxiously throughout the showing while filling the room with cigar smoke, ruining the Bowden family’s experience. | |
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Forced to Watch | |
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Forced to Watch: Cady disables Bowden at the boat and then the latter has to watch helplessly as Cady goes for his wife and daughter. | |
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Disney Villain Death | |
| Cape Fear / int_5bdcc85a | comment |
Disney Villain Death: The piece of boat Cady is cuffed to gets pulled back into the Cape Fear River by a wave and he eventually is dragged under to his doom. | |
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Man on Fire | |
| Cape Fear / int_5d86966a | comment |
Man on Fire: Danielle sprays Cady with lighter fluid while he lights a cigar, engulfing him in flames and causing him to jump off the boat to extinguish the fire. | |
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Hellhole Prison | |
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Hellhole Prison: Cady doesn't stop telling Sam all about it. He claims to have been subjected to Prison Rape. | |
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Sacrificial Lion | |
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Sacrificial Lion: Kersek's death shows just how far Cady will go to have his revenge. | |
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Revenge Through Corruption | |
| Cape Fear / int_659ae11b | comment |
Revenge Through Corruption: Cady gets his hooks in Bowden's daughter, almost seducing her, but she eventually sees him for the monster he is. Likewise, he never got what he truly wanted out of Sam, as he was killed in self-defense. Brought up by Cady in discussion with Sam about how his Prison Rape past could be properly retaliated. | |
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Villain Has a Point | |
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Villain Has a Point: Cady is technically correct when he points out that Bowden violated his legal and ethical duty as a defense attorney by burying important evidence that may have secured his client's acquittal. Hence he bears no grudge against the judge or the prosecutor, who were just doing their jobs correctly. Even Sam's boss call him out for burying the evidence. Only technically though, since this leads more to the condemnation of such a warped law than to Cady's justification as Cady is a Hypocrite who truly doesn't care about the law and just uses it as a petty excuse to ignore his own crimes. | |
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Mugging the Monster | |
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Mugging the Monster: The three goons that the Bowdens hire to attack Cady get this treatment. In the book, Sam Bowden and Charlie Sievers theorize that Cady's psychopathy actually helps him to utilize more of his strength than the average person. | |
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Menacing Stroll | |
| Cape Fear / int_73bf188d | comment |
Menacing Stroll: Cady, even when he's released from prison, even walking into the camera. | |
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Spared by the Adaptation | |
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Spared by the Adaptation: Cady is sent back to prison rather than getting killed. | |
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Prison Rape | |
| Cape Fear / int_758c3034 | comment |
Prison Rape: Cady's quip about "being a woman" and getting in touch with his own "soft, nurturing side, his feminine side" when Sam Bowden tried to buy him off implies he was subjected to this. | |
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I Don't Like the Sound of That Place | |
| Cape Fear / int_76d6c3df | comment |
I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: Cape Fear. | |
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Consummate Liar | |
| Cape Fear / int_7aa858c1 | comment |
Consummate Liar: Cady is able to deceive others by making up stories about himself, even presenting himself as the victim to Sam's harassment. | |
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Black-and-White Morality | |
| Cape Fear / int_7abd339f | comment |
Black-and-White Morality: The original film portrays Max Cady as pure evil, with absolutely no legitimate reason to begrudge his conviction and Sam Bowden as perfectly virtuous and upright. The Bowdens also stay true to each other throughout the film, unlike in the remake. | |
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Obviously Evil | |
| Cape Fear / int_7c0bfb83 | comment |
Obviously Evil: Unlike in the original version, a quick look at Cady's tattooed skin on this version reveals that he is a bad man. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
| Cape Fear / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Bowden gives one to Cady after finally catching him at gunpoint. | |
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Serial Rapist | |
| Cape Fear / int_7e84a642 | comment |
Serial Rapist: Cady spent several years in prison (eight years in the original film and fourteen years in the remake) for physically assaulting a woman. Obviously once released he doesn't stop doing it or just trying to. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
| Cape Fear / int_7febc23b | comment |
Establishing Character Moment: At the beginning of the film, Cady walks past a woman who drops something. He doesn't help her, doesn't even look at her, thus showing himself to be a jerk. And almost as soon as he begins speaking, he makes several lecherous comments to and about women, showing his predatory side. | |
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AM/FM Characterization | |
| Cape Fear / int_81414673 | comment |
AM/FM Characterization: Danielle has posters of Jimi Hendrix, Megadeth, The Cure and Guns N' Roses and watches the video for Jane's Addiction's "Been Caught Stealing" while her parents argue. | |
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Large Ham | |
| Cape Fear / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: De Niro, in fine form. There's rarely a scene where he isn't gleefully chomping off bits of scenery. Unlike most examples, it just makes him scarier. It's taken up to eleven after Cady is set on fire. | |
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Revenge Is Not Justice | |
| Cape Fear / int_8355aa1b | comment |
Revenge Is Not Justice: Max Cady wants revenge because his lawyer, Sam Bowden, buried evidence that could have saved Cady 14 years in prison (where it's implied that he was sexually assaulted there and he felt especially vulnerable due to his illiteracy). However, it's revealed early on that the evidence that could have saved Cady was that his victim was promiscuous, something Bowden points out as ridiculous and evil. Cady doesn't accept this or care, and even prepares to still murder Sam for violating his oath as a lawyer. | |
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Artistic License – Law | |
| Cape Fear / int_8391b1c7 | comment |
Artistic License – Law: Played With. The above episode ignores the fact that since the 1970s, most US states have passed rape shield laws, which seriously limit and in many cases completely prohibit a victim's past sexual behavior from being introduced as evidence or being brought up in cross-examination. invokedHowever, North Carolina didn't adopt its Rape Shield Law until 1979, while Cady's trial occurred in 1977. | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality | |
| Cape Fear / int_8767b1f3 | comment |
Black-and-Gray Morality: Black vs a comparatively light shade of grey. Generally what happens when an overall good man with anger issues and who partook in an affair is up against a rapist. Despite his other transgressions, Bowden sabotaging Cady's defense to prevent his acquittal for raping a teenage girl by burying evidence of the victim's past lovers was a clear altruistic action, albeit certainly unethical and probably illegal given his role as a defense attorney. Leigh and Danielle Bowden are also a little less squeaky clean than Peggy and Nancy were in the original film. The pressure of Cady's stalking causes Leigh to lash out at Sam in some scenes, and Danielle is portrayed as a troubled teenager who smokes pot and is perversely fascinated with Cady at first. However, when they realize how monstrous Cady truly is, both Leigh and Danielle help Sam to fight him in the climax. | |
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Abhorrent Admirer | |
| Cape Fear / int_88cee6e2 | comment |
Abhorrent Admirer: Cady towards Peggy, Bowden's wife. Not in look actually but definitely in personality. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
| Cape Fear / int_898ff050 | comment |
Villain Protagonist: Cady's actor in the remake is given top billing and the Academy Award and Golden Globe nomination he received was for "Best Actor". So, it can be viewed that Cady is the main focus of the film for the audience to follow from beginning to end besides also acting as the Big Bad, while Sam is a Supporting Protagonist who endures Cady's menace and realized how deeply motivated he is to achieve his revenge against him. | |
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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil | |
| Cape Fear / int_8a817c2a | comment |
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Cady was given a lengthy prison sentence for raping a woman. In the original film it is implied that he also raped Diane Taylor at the hotel. | |
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Private Detective | |
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Private Detective: Kersek. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
| Cape Fear / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: The reason why Cady is out for Sam's blood is that the latter buried evidence that could have minimized Cady's sentence by 14 years. While Cady's grievance is legitimate and something he could legally punish Sam for by bringing him to court, he clearly deserved it and chose violent revenge instead. | |
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Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon | |
| Cape Fear / int_8ee710e7 | comment |
Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon: When Sam sees the bodies of Kersek and the maid, he loses it and totally messes up the crime scene including touching the murder weapon (gun). | |
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Karmic Death | |
| Cape Fear / int_90d44f44 | comment |
Karmic Death: Cady constantly declares that in God’s eyes, he'll punish Bowden for betraying him and just before Bowden is about to kill Cady with a rock, a wave pulls Cady back into the River where he eventually sinks down to the bottom. | |
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Revenge | |
| Cape Fear / int_92f674e5 | comment |
Revenge: Cady's lust for revenge against Bowden fuels the plot. | |
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Safe Behind the Corner | |
| Cape Fear / int_9335b4ba | comment |
Safe Behind the Corner: Cady shouts Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are and walks towards the dumpster behind which the protagonist is hiding. Then he stops in his tracks, curses, and walks away. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
| Cape Fear / int_957e5fc2 | comment |
Villainous Breakdown: Cady pretty much loses it in the climax, screaming glossolalic gibberish and ranting about being "bound for the promised land" right before he drowns. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
| Cape Fear / int_95b7c400 | comment |
Faux Affably Evil: Cady. He tries to present himself as a pleasant, well-educated southern gentleman (in the remake, he also has pretensions of being a Knight Templar who talks about justice and God), but it's clear that beneath that facade he is a sadistic rapist and murderer who only cares about revenge and refuses to admit that he deserved to be punished for his crimes, regardless of whether his lawyer could have gotten him off the hook or not. | |
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Never My Fault | |
| Cape Fear / int_973d220f | comment |
Never My Fault: Cady wants revenge because Bowden got him convicted, and seems completely oblivious to the fact that he fully deserved it. | |
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Black Dude Dies First | |
| Cape Fear / int_9788e2b1 | comment |
Black Dude Dies First: The first person Cady kills in the film is Graciella, the Bowdens' Hispanic housekeeper. | |
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As You Know | |
| Cape Fear / int_9843be73 | comment |
As You Know: Sam Bowden's plan to deal with Cady is helpfully exposited by his wife. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
| Cape Fear / int_984ef9ef | comment |
"Not So Different" Remark: Cady at least tries to invoke this in his argument with Bowden, and is trying to bring Bowden to his level. The way Bowden snarls like a rabid animal while violently trying to beat Cady's brains out with a rock in the climax suggests he at least slightly succeeded, though it's not like Bowden's anger is in any way misplaced. | |
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Better to Die than Be Killed | |
| Cape Fear / int_99298c71 | comment |
Better to Die than Be Killed: Cady is ready to resign himself to being killed by Bowden until Bowden realizes doing so would be a Mercy Kill and that the Fate Worse than Death Cady deserves is returning to prison for life. | |
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Made of Iron | |
| Cape Fear / int_9d17b859 | comment |
Made of Iron: Max gets beaten on for quite a while by some thugs, but as soon as he gets a weapon away from one of them, he takes them all down with ease. Later, Danielle throws some boiling water in his face, and he doesn't even blink. Grasping a lit signal flare didn't faze him, either. However, it's established that Cady isn't invulnerable and his various injuries eventually catch up with him and incapacitate him. | |
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Blaming the Victim | |
| Cape Fear / int_9d5dad72 | comment |
Blaming the Victim: Explored. Max Cady's rape and battery of a teenage girl appalls his attorney Sam Bowden, who willingly buries the girl's history of promiscuity because he knows it would help Cady get acquitted. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
| Cape Fear / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
My God, What Have I Done?: When Danielle acts coy at the question of Cady touching her at school, Sam is infuriated and nearly chokes her when demanding answers. He's immediately remorseful, calms down and apologizes, but Danielle yells for him to Get Out!. | |
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Nice to the Waiter | |
| Cape Fear / int_a39d6056 | comment |
Nice to the Waiter: Danielle is very close to the family maid Graciella, always greeting her and trying to help her out. Cady brutally murdering her is what finally opens Danielle's eyes to what he really is, leaving her horrified and devastated. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
| Cape Fear / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: One minute, Lori is giddy and flirtatious, she's screaming in terror the next. | |
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Dented Iron | |
| Cape Fear / int_a54c2273 | comment |
Dented Iron: Despite his savagery, Cady is no superhuman monster. By the end of the final brawl with Bowden, his many injuries leave him too weak to stand and he eventually drowns when the surf washes him away. | |
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Ambulance Chaser | |
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Ambulance Chaser: Cady's lawyer. | |
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Soft-Spoken Sadist | |
| Cape Fear / int_a8660c25 | comment |
Soft-Spoken Sadist: Unlike the De Niro's version, Mitchum's Cady is more calm and cold blooded and rarely raises his voice even when he's truly angry. Which possibly makes him even more terryfing. | |
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Obfuscating Disability | |
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Obfuscating Disability: When the judge granted the restraining order against Bowden, Cady hobbled right out of court in crutches. | |
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Red Shirt | |
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Red Shirt: Graciella, the Bowdens' maid, gets very little characterization or screentime before Cady murders her. | |
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Girls Love Stuffed Animals | |
| Cape Fear / int_aed59f28 | comment |
Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Danielle has a teddy bear on her bed. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
| Cape Fear / int_b1346878 | comment |
Fate Worse than Death: Bowden realizes killing Cady would be way too merciful and that prison for life would be a far more fitting and torturous punishment. | |
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Sadist | |
| Cape Fear / int_b39d5719 | comment |
Sadist: Max Cady seems to be a pathologically one. He loves to abuse women and takes joy in tormenting Sam Bowden and his family instead of just killing'em. | |
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Troubled Teen | |
| Cape Fear / int_b496fc2c | comment |
Troubled Teen: Danielle was nearly expelled for smoking marijuana and consequently goes to summer school. She also seems to be struggling with puberty and feeling isolated due to her parents' arguments, which Cady takes advantage of to charm her. | |
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Amoral Attorney | |
| Cape Fear / int_b5b3599d | comment |
Amoral Attorney: Played with. While Bowden's motives for withholding evidence that could have helped his client's case had an altruistic motive, doing so was still a clear betrayal of his role as Cady's defense attorney. | |
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Revenge by Proxy | |
| Cape Fear / int_b77eb3b2 | comment |
Revenge by Proxy: Cady's MO is to brutalize and/or kill people close to Bowden to teach him the meaning of loss. | |
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The Film of the Book | |
| Cape Fear / int_b9af5ef3 | comment |
The Film of the Book: The novel was written by John D. MacDonald. | |
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It's All About Me | |
| Cape Fear / int_bb18a227 | comment |
It's All About Me: In both versions, Cady cares absoultely nothing about being an unrepentant rapist who deserved prison and regardless of the reason, blames and wants to punish Bowden for it no matter the reason (his testimony in the original and his burying the report on the victim's sexual history in the remake). | |
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Genius Bruiser | |
| Cape Fear / int_bbf11c0 | comment |
Genius Bruiser: Cady is both in exceptionally good shape and terrifyingly smart. He studied law in prison, becoming a lawyer, even acting as his own defense during his appeals, so he knew when and how to harass the Bowdens and also became extremely well-read. | |
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Jump Scare | |
| Cape Fear / int_c04b1231 | comment |
Jump Scare: One of them happens when the phone rings during dinner. Actually, the ringer was loud... Another happens when Kersek is talking with the Bowden’s maid, and she turns around to reveal she is Cady, who had already murdered the real maid and taken her clothing to ambush Kersek. | |
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Badass Bookworm | |
| Cape Fear / int_c3478f1d | comment |
Badass Bookworm: After educating himself in prison, Cady becomes a very sinister version of this. In addition to being a physically powerful, skilled fighter who's seemingly immune to pain, Cady also knows every nuance of the law and knows how to use it to his advantage. Cady also seems obsessed with and very knowledgeable of theology and philosophy, which help to fuel and in his mind justify his obsessions. | |
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Exiled to the Couch | |
| Cape Fear / int_c3782352 | comment |
Exiled to the Couch: Presented as a Gilligan Cut. After a quarrel with his wife about his infidelity, Sam invokes their team work. Zoom upon his wife's face. Cut. Sam with a blanket on the couch. | |
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Dumbass No More | |
| Cape Fear / int_c55269ac | comment |
Dumbass No More: At first, Bowden doesn't believe that Cady could know anything about how Bowden withheld evidence at Cady's trial since Cady was an illiterate, ignorant "hillbilly" at the time. Little does Bowden know that Cady has not only taught himself how to read, but has become very knowledgeable in law and many other subjects. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
| Cape Fear / int_c660bc15 | comment |
Fan Disservice: Cady is in excellent shape and we get some scenes of him shirtless with his abs clearly visible but the effect is more off-putting than anything else. | |
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Cigar Chomper | |
| Cape Fear / int_c914e68d | comment |
Cigar Chomper: Cady loves his cigars and is often seen puffing on one, usually in an incredibly obnoxious manner. | |
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Playing Possum | |
| Cape Fear / int_c9868780 | comment |
Playing Possum: Sam pretends to be dead or at least unconscious when Cady strangles him, enabling him to grab a rock and bash him on the head. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
| Cape Fear / int_d028ca10 | comment |
Deliberately Monochrome: Though most films were color in 1962, the film was shot in black and white probably to add to the menace of the film. | |
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Bizarre Taste in Food | |
| Cape Fear / int_d0d90308 | comment |
Bizarre Taste in Food: Kersek's favourite drink is Jim Beam mixed with Pepto-Bismol. He mentions it was also his father's favorite for stakeouts. | |
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Bad People Abuse Animals | |
| Cape Fear / int_d2102da0 | comment |
Bad People Abuse Animals: In both versions, Max Cady kills the Bowdens' pet dog. | |
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Hand Gagging | |
| Cape Fear / int_d21a93f4 | comment |
Hand Gagging: Cady handgags the daughter when taking her out of the house in the final act. | |
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Blasphemous Boast | |
| Cape Fear / int_d3f33049 | comment |
Blasphemous Boast: | |
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Hypocrite | |
| Cape Fear / int_d52d28b6 | comment |
Hypocrite: Cady in both versions. While the original has him wanting to torment Bowden because his testimony sent him to prison—despite it being rightfully so—he claims in the remake to want to punish Bowden both legally and divinely for burying the report that probably would've gotten him off for a rape—and Cady purposely ignores not only that he was guilty of that rape to begin with, but committed two others before it and after being released from prison, poisons a dog; rapes another woman; murders two people and nearly tortures a family to death. | |
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Good Smoking, Evil Smoking | |
| Cape Fear / int_dab2f3ee | comment |
Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Cady smokes Evil Cigars. | |
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Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are | |
| Cape Fear / int_db08fb56 | comment |
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Cady says this word for word when looking for Bowden who hides behind a dumpster. | |
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Adaptation Name Change | |
| Cape Fear / int_dc057cf3 | comment |
Adaptation Name Change: Bowden's wife and daughter's names are changed from Peggy & Nancy to Leigh & Danielle. | |
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Tattooed Crook | |
| Cape Fear / int_dde43ab | comment |
Tattooed Crook: Max Cady. His various shirtless scenes show him covered in extensive tattoos. | |
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Buy Them Off | |
| Cape Fear / int_e0222ff2 | comment |
Buy Them Off: Bowden offers Cady $10,000 in cash to leave him alone. He doesn't take it, saying it doesn't even equate to minimum wage for all the years he spent in prison. | |
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Giggling Villain | |
| Cape Fear / int_e0aced16 | comment |
Giggling Villain: Cady often chuckles smugly. | |
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Cruel Mercy | |
| Cape Fear / int_e19e68 | comment |
Cruel Mercy: Sam is in a position where he could easily kill Cady and get away with it, justifying it as being in fear for his life and that of his family. He instead lets him live, explaining in great detail how much Cady will enjoy his inevitable life sentence, being forced to wait for death in the prison he hated so much. | |
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From Nobody to Nightmare | |
| Cape Fear / int_e1acc872 | comment |
From Nobody to Nightmare: From an illiterate rube rapist to a buff, law-reading homicidal bastard with a liking for teenage girls. | |
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Composite Character | |
| Cape Fear / int_e4965307 | comment |
Composite Character: Robert De Niro's Cady combines the original with another famous villain played by Robert Mitchum; Sinister Minister Harry Powell. Deputy Kersek and PI Charlie Sievers from the original are combined into a single character in the remake, taking Sievers’ role but Kersek’s name and death at the hands of Cady. | |
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Feet-First Introduction | |
| Cape Fear / int_e73f6217 | comment |
Feet-First Introduction: Used for the introduction of the Latin maid. | |
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Never Learned to Read | |
| Cape Fear / int_e9a3a1ed | comment |
Never Learned to Read: Cady was illiterate well into adulthood and only learned while in prison. However, he repeatedly shows that this doesn't mean he's stupid. | |
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Prisons Are Gymnasiums | |
| Cape Fear / int_e9ae8248 | comment |
Prisons Are Gymnasiums: Cady leaves prison well-shaped. | |
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Rules Lawyer | |
| Cape Fear / int_eb8e12d6 | comment |
Rules Lawyer: As in To Kill a Mockingbird, Gregory Peck plays one of these. He still manages to be the good guy. | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
| Cape Fear / int_eb8f64a6 | comment |
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Bowden's decision to Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! is what led to Cady to get his revenge on him. | |
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Til Murder Do Us Part | |
| Cape Fear / int_ed371675 | comment |
Til Murder Do Us Part: Cady casually mentions he killed his ex-wife and chopped her in 52 pieces when he's intimate with Lori Davis. Hard to tell he's joking or telling the truth. | |
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Underside Ride | |
| Cape Fear / int_f3894c02 | comment |
Underside Ride: Max Cady ties himself to the bottom of Sam Bowden's car, causing the Bowden family to take him directly to the houseboat. This is probably the most parodied element of the film. Cady luckily avoids stepping on any rakes afterwards. | |
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The Fundamentalist | |
| Cape Fear / int_f76842b1 | comment |
The Fundamentalist: Cady and Heller (Cady's attorney, ironically played by Peck). | |
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Defensive Failure | |
| Cape Fear / int_fc9c4dfc | comment |
Defensive Failure: The daughter threatens Cady with a iron bar but he easily takes it out of her hands without any resistance. | |
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Evil Is Petty | |
| Cape Fear / int_fe64d5a1 | comment |
Evil Is Petty: Cady when he's not busy raping woman or killing human beings he's just a massive dick to everyone. In one scene he offers a married waitress 20 $ for obvious indecent reasons and laughs when she reacts disgusted. In the same scene he silently chuckles when Bowden, distracted by Cady's presence, misses a bowling pin and later comments sarcastically "Nice shot." | |
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