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Road to Perdition
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A 2002 film, directed by Sam Mendes, based on the comic of the same name by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner (itself inspired by the manga Lone Wolf and Cub). Mobster Michael Sullivan (Tom Hanks) and his son Michael Jr., (Tyler Hoechlin) who followed him to work, witness the mob boss John Rooney (Paul Newman)'s son Connor (Daniel Craig) shoot a fellow employee (Ciarán Hinds) for embezzling from the gang.Connor tries to kill the witnesses off, but botches the job and ends up killing Mike's wife and younger son. Expecting revenge, the mob takes out a Contract on the Hitman and Sullivan and Michael go on the run, pursued by a chillingly psychopathic assassin, Maguire (Jude Law). Also starring Stanley Tucci as Frank Nitti, a real-life major figure in the Al Capone organization.The film deals largely with father-and-son relationships — both the protagonists and the villain of the movie have deep issues with paternal favoritism and respect. Whereas Connor forces his father to try to protect him at the cost of a man he clearly loves as a son, Michael becomes determined that his only surviving child will not become like him. | |
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Canon Foreigner | |
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Canon Foreigner: If you've only seen the movie, you might be surprised to learn that Maguire is nowhere to be found in the source material. | |
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Bloodless Carnage | |
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Bloodless Carnage: There's not much gore after Finn McGovern is given a Boom, Headshot! at point-blank range by Connor. Even that is pretty clean, we see his face bloodied while he's lying dead on the ground, but there's more gunsmoke than blood during the actual shooting. Done rather bizarrely at the end, when Michael Sr. is bleeding heavily from his wounds, but Maguire doesn't appear to bleed at all. | |
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One Last Smoke | |
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One Last Smoke: Kelly, the henchman who Rooney leaves to receive Michael and attempt to dissuade from continuing after Connor, lights one when Michael arrives. Kelly takes a final puff just before Michael shoots him. | |
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Plot-Triggering Death: Connor's impulsive murder of Finn McGovern, which is witnessed by Michael Sullivan Jr., starts a chain of events that results in the decimation of the Rooney crime family. | |
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Elevator Action Sequence: Subverted twice with the same players each time. When Michael is trying to leave Frank Nitti's hotel in a hurry, one of Nitti's burly goons follows him into an elevator...but Michael immediately slips out again right before the door closes. The second time, when he's hunting Connor, Nitti's goons just step aside and let him through. | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Connor Rooney in the movie. In the comic, however, none of his angst (nor his father's favoritism towards Michael Sr.) is even hinted at (his motives for doing what he does are out of bloodlust and paranoia rather than out of envy). Also Sullivan himself towards Michael Jr.; not only does he struggle to connect with his son, but Sullivan later admits he's had mixed feelings as Jr. reminds him of himself. He also has this feeling towards John Rooney; Michael was raised by John Rooney and his career as an enforcer is to pay him back for what Rooney did for him. | |
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Deadly Bath | |
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Deadly Bath: Connor is murdered while taking a bath, in a shot that appears very much as an homage to Jacque-Louis David's painting The Death of Marat. Also, Mrs. Sullivan is giving the younger son, Peter, a bath when Connor comes to shoot them. | |
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Mutual Kill | |
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Mutual Kill: Sullivan Sr. and Maguire both take one another out in the ending of the movie. | |
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Uriah Gambit | |
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Uriah Gambit: Connor sets up Sullivan to be killed this way: send him out to a speakeasy owner who owes debt to Rooney with a message. The message tells the owner that if he kills Sullivan, his debt will be forgiven. | |
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Dragon Their Feet | |
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Dragon Their Feet: After Michael Sr. kills the entire Rooney crime family, Harlen Maguire still shows up at the end and kills him, despite the fact the people who were paying Maguire were already all dead, because... It's Personal: During the exchange of gunfire in Rance's hotel suite, Michael shoots a glass lamp, which shatters and the fragments leave lots of nasty cuts on the left side of Maguire's face. | |
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Art Imitates Art | |
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Art Imitates Art: Sam Mendes and cinematographer Conrad L. Hall sought to give the film the look of the works of Edward Hopper. The assassination of Connor, via Deadly Bath, is modeled on Jacques-Louis David's famous painting The Death of Marat. | |
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Inadequate Inheritor | |
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Inadequate Inheritor: Connor qualifies. He's incompetent and unstable, and because of these traits, Nitti has no problem selling him out to Michael Sr. if he ends the feud. | |
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Psycho for Hire | |
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Psycho for Hire: Harlen Maguire, who enjoys photographing dead bodies almost as much as he enjoys making them that way. | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill: In the movie, Sullivan's final act is shooting Maguire so that his son will be able to go through life having never killed anyone. If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Me, if you will. In the comic, however, Michael Jr. averts this, killing at least two of the mooks that come after them, including the man who fatally wounds his father. | |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Unseen Evil: Capone is deliberately kept off-camera to evoke a sense of mystery and fear behind the most powerful man in Chicago and the power resting behind Frank Nittinote although by the time the movie is set, Capone's best days were behind him (see Gracefully Demoted above), nobody knew this yet. A scene with him was filmed, but was left out of the final cut despite the director admitting he loved the performance. | |
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Dies Wide Open | |
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Dies Wide Open: When one of Finn McGovern's men falls dead after Michael Sr. guns him down, he falls so that his eyes are looking right at the (concealed) Michael Jr. | |
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You Should Have Died Instead | |
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You Should Have Died Instead: Michael Jr. believes this is how his father feels about him. He is wrong. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: During a shootout, Maguire shoots a cop before the latter can finish asking what the former's doing, then shoots him again as he's getting up, finishing him off. All to let you know Maguire is evil as evil gets. | |
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The Hero Dies | |
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The Hero Dies: Michael Sr. himself at the end. | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
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Face Death with Dignity: Rooney, who, as his mooks are gunned down around him, simply stands there and awaits his fate. | |
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Epunymous Title: Michael is on the way to irrevocably dooming his soul to hell… but he's also driving to a town called Perdition. | |
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Psychopathic Manchild | |
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Psychopathic Manchild: Connor Rooney. | |
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Elemental Motifs | |
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Elemental Motifs: Water is often used to symbolise death: Michael kills Connor in the bath. Michael kills Rooney and his henchmen in the rain. Michael and Maguire kill each other in a house near the sea. Early in the film, everyone attends a funeral where someone draws attention to the ice on the corpse. | |
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Staggered Zoom | |
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Staggered Zoom: The camera jumps back during Maguire's introductory scene as he uses a cloth to suffocate a not-quite-dead stabbing victim while an 'L' train speeds by outside. | |
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The Irish Mob | |
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The Irish Mob: John Rooney is the head of an Irish criminal organization, and employs Michael Sullivan as an enforcer. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Michael Sr. dies, but the kid lives, and in the comic, grows up to become a priest. | |
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Shoot the Messenger | |
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Shoot the Messenger: What Michael Sr. does to Mr. Kelly, the henchman that Rooney sent to offer $25,000 recompense for the death of his family. | |
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Greasy Spoon | |
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Greasy Spoon: The Michael Sullivans very narrowly avoid an assassination attempt in one of these. Michael Sr. even small-talks with a waitress who brings his fried chicken and coffee, and Maguire — posing as an Intrepid Reporter—also orders coffee with an enormous heaping of sugar. While Michael Sr. and his son just barely escape, Maguire kills a cop who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. | |
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Would Hurt a Child: Connor. He tries to kill Michael Jr. and kills Peter instead. Harlen Maguire has no problem with trying to kill Michael Jr. either, even though Rooney declared Michael Jr. off-limits. | |
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Death by Adaptation | |
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Death by Adaptation: John Rooney dies, while John Looney lives (just like his historical counterpart). | |
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Gory Discretion Shot | |
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Gory Discretion Shot: Subverted. Michael shoots Connor in his bath; we see Michael through the bathroom doorway, but his victim is off-camera. Then the bathroom door swings shut, and we see—reflected in the mirror on the bathroom door—the victim slumped in the bathtub, with his brains blown over the bathroom wall. Played straight with the death of the elder Rooney, where the camera focuses on the agonized Michael as he readies his Tommy gun and fires. | |
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Pretty Little Headshots: Subverted with Connor's death — when we see the body, his actual head is pretty clean, but there's a massive splatter of blood across the wall behind him. | |
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Adaptational Ugliness | |
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Adaptational Ugliness: The graphic novel's Michael O'Sullivan was a much more classically◊ handsome◊ character, and he was apparently nicknamed "Looney's Angel of Death", in part, for his good looks. Understandably, Tom Hanks - though definitely a handsome man - was chosen more for his acting ability than for his physical resemblance to the character. | |
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Non-Action Big Bad | |
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Non-Action Big Bad: It's weird to think of Daniel Craig as a cowardly weakling, but yeah, Connor Rooney is emphatically not a badass. See Psychopathic Manchild below. | |
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Vertigo Effect | |
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Vertigo Effect: Maguire first appears walking toward the camera underneath an 'L' track. It takes about 11 seconds of screen time, whereas the typical Vertigo shot is much more fast-moving. | |
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The Dragon | |
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The Dragon: Michael was this to John Rooney before the film. Maguire is this to the Rooneys during the main story, as well. | |
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If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him! | |
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In the movie, Sullivan's final act is shooting Maguire so that his son will be able to go through life having never killed anyone. If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Me, if you will. | |
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NietzscheWannabe | |
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Nietzsche Wannabe: Connor tries to use a cynical facade to hide his jealousy and childishness. It doesn't work. | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: The movie is set "in the winter of 1931", which could refer to either the beginning or end of the year, but if it's early '31, Capone shouldn't be in jail yet (he wasn't convicted until October of that year), and if the movie is set in December, Frank Nitti should still be serving his own sentence. Either way, Nitti did not assume control of the Chicago Outfit until his own release in April of '32. | |
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Beauty Inversion | |
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Beauty Inversion: Harlen Maguire is a balding, hunched, brown-toothed man with an ill-fitting bowler hat and generally creepy mannerisms; not what the audience was expecting from Jude Law. Law himself has said he finds his own scenes in the movie hard to watch for this exact reason. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: In at least 2 scenes showing extended, broad daylight shootouts, there is no sign of law enforcement in the area, much less intervention from them of any kind. The one time we see a cop, he gets immediately killed by Maguire after cluelessly bumbling outside to see what all the noise (gunfire, no less) was about. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_59907e4f | |
| Road to Perdition / int_5a40d6a | type |
Adaptation Distillation | |
| Road to Perdition / int_5a40d6a | comment |
Adaptation Distillation: The comic's author himself approves of many of the changes, like having the Sullivans contend with a single assassin instead of various random Mooks. With the exception of the slightly more upbeat ending, the book is mostly a grim, pulpy odyssey of stylishly bloody death, the film has a more serene tone with violence kept to a minimum. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_5a40d6a | |
| Road to Perdition / int_5aa8d3d8 | type |
Friendly Enemy | |
| Road to Perdition / int_5aa8d3d8 | comment |
Friendly Enemy: Michael and the elder Rooney. To an extent, this is also true of Michael and the Capone organization, whose money he's stealing in an attempt to force them to end their protection of Connor, but they (or at least, Nitti) completely understand why he's doing what he's doing, and would sort of like to be on his side. Once the elder Rooney is out of the picture, they happily step aside and allow Michael to get his revenge on Connor. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_5aa8d3d8 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_5f146203 | type |
Dissonant Serenity | |
| Road to Perdition / int_5f146203 | comment |
Dissonant Serenity: The silent gunfight. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_5f146203 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_5f410c2c | type |
Blood Is Squicker in Water | |
| Road to Perdition / int_5f410c2c | comment |
Blood Is Squicker in Water: Connor's execution and the death of Peter in the bath. Water preceding death is a major theme. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_5f410c2c | |
| Road to Perdition / int_6070670f | type |
Complete-the-Quote Title | |
| Road to Perdition / int_6070670f | comment |
Complete-the-Quote Title: "...is paved with good intentions". | |
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Road to Perdition / int_6070670f | |
| Road to Perdition / int_612ec723 | type |
TheCollectorOfTheStrange | |
| Road to Perdition / int_612ec723 | comment |
The Collector of the Strange: Maguire has a collection of photographs of corpses, at least some of which are his own handiwork. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_612ec723 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_67882125 | type |
Lifesaving Misfortune | |
| Road to Perdition / int_67882125 | comment |
Life Saving Misfortune: Michael Jr. winds up at home later than usual and misses being killed by Connor because he got into a fight at school and had to stay later to copy lines. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_67882125 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_6cc2137b | type |
The Scream | |
| Road to Perdition / int_6cc2137b | comment |
The Scream: We never see Michael Jr.'s reaction to finding his mother and brother's bodies. When his father finds them, we hear his muffled Big "NO!" from the other room, with the camera on Jr. staring silently at nothing. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_6cc2137b | |
| Road to Perdition / int_6d871385 | type |
Villainous BSoD | |
| Road to Perdition / int_6d871385 | comment |
Villainous BSoD: When the elder Sullivan guns down all his men, John Rooney seemingly just gives up and stands there, tightly clutching the door handle of his car for dear life as if it's the only thing keeping him standing. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_6d871385 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_7c9dcc1 | type |
THeUnfavorite | |
| Road to Perdition / int_7c9dcc1 | comment |
Michael Jr. is originally The Unfavorite, because "you were more like me". | |
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Road to Perdition / int_7c9dcc1 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_7cc3f425 | type |
Moment of Silence | |
| Road to Perdition / int_7cc3f425 | comment |
Moment of Silence: The climactic Battle in the Rain, with muted sound effects, minimalistic music and no dialogue until the final confrontation. Followed by an understated "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner, and a jarringly loud burst of gunfire. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_7cc3f425 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_7febc23b | type |
Establishing Character Moment | |
| Road to Perdition / int_7febc23b | comment |
Establishing Character Moment: Maguire's plot-irrelevant crime scene photography, showing him as an entirely amoral and psychotic ice-cold killer when he finishes off the Not Quite Dead victim. There's also Rance whining to the hotel staff about his boiled egg. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_7febc23b | |
| Road to Perdition / int_805deb6e | type |
Small Role, Big Impact | |
| Road to Perdition / int_805deb6e | comment |
Small Role, Big Impact: Whoever Michael Jr. got into a fight with; because of the fight, Michael has to stay at school and copy lines, meaning that he gets home later and doesn't get killed by Connor. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_805deb6e | |
| Road to Perdition / int_83a903f6 | type |
Stepford Smiler | |
| Road to Perdition / int_83a903f6 | comment |
Stepford Smiler: Connor, who smiles when he's feeling shamed by his father's preference for Michael. When asked why he does this, his deadpans, "Because it's all so fucking hysterical." | |
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Road to Perdition / int_83a903f6 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_8494bcb3 | type |
Disposable Pilot | |
| Road to Perdition / int_8494bcb3 | comment |
Disposable Pilot: When Michael comes to kill John Rooney, the first person he kills is Rooney's driver, preventing him from leaving quickly. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_8494bcb3 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_8767b1f3 | type |
Black-and-Gray Morality | |
| Road to Perdition / int_8767b1f3 | comment |
Black-and-Gray Morality: The purest motive held by any of the characters is Michael Sr's wish for his son to have a better life. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_8767b1f3 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_8797239c | type |
Bait-and-Switch | |
| Road to Perdition / int_8797239c | comment |
Bait-and-Switch: When Michael sees Connor in his house at night through the window, Connor looks straight towards where he's standing and Michael freezes in horror. Then it turns out Connor was just looking at his own reflection in the glass and hadn't noticed Michael. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_8797239c | |
| Road to Perdition / int_88933ad4 | type |
Parental Favoritism | |
| Road to Perdition / int_88933ad4 | comment |
Parental Favoritism: Something of a theme. Michael Jr. is originally The Unfavorite, because "you were more like me". In the film, John Rooney clearly favors Michael over his own son, Connor, which gives Connor a serious complex and only makes him even more of a screw-up. When called upon to choose between them, however, John chooses blood, largely out of guilt for not being a better father to Connor. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_88933ad4 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_8966382e | type |
Bank Robbery | |
| Road to Perdition / int_8966382e | comment |
Bank Robbery: The main action of the film and the comic has Michael robbing mob banks of their off-the-books money to get Rooney and Capone to give up Connor to him. He makes a point of not touching the money of ordinary clients, and sometimes he even gives a cut to the bank teller. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_8966382e | |
| Road to Perdition / int_89a17726 | type |
Spell My Name with an S | |
| Road to Perdition / int_89a17726 | comment |
Spell My Name with an S: The Looney family from the comic (and from real life) became the Rooney family for the movie. Likewise, the O'Sullivans became the Sullivans. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_89a17726 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_90d44f44 | type |
Karmic Death | |
| Road to Perdition / int_90d44f44 | comment |
Connor is executed by Michael Sr. while sitting in a bathtub. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_90d44f44 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_90ff49cb | type |
Robbing the Mob Bank | |
| Road to Perdition / int_90ff49cb | comment |
Robbing the Mob Bank: Michael's plan to avenge his family involves robbing banks of the off-the-books money they hold for Rooney and Capone in an effort to get Capone to turn over Connor, the murderer in question. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_90ff49cb | |
| Road to Perdition / int_916c72b3 | type |
Rule of Symbolism | |
| Road to Perdition / int_916c72b3 | comment |
Rule of Symbolism: Mendes deliberately wrote every death to be near or surrounded by water to demonstrate the commonness (and uncontrollability) of death in the mobster's lives. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_916c72b3 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_9245d989 | type |
Sinister Minister | |
| Road to Perdition / int_9245d989 | comment |
Sinister Minister: Michael Sr. tells Michael Jr. to not go to Father Callaway to hide, implying that the man is in the pocket of the mob and would give him up. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_9245d989 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_93a55c24 | type |
Shady Lady of the Night | |
| Road to Perdition / int_93a55c24 | comment |
Shady Lady of the Night: In one of the comic book stories, Michael O'Sullivan visiting an underage prostitute named Juana who he wants information from concerning his nemesis Connor Looney. For obvious reasons, he doesn't do anything with her, but instead gets the information that he needs from her and leaves her with enough money to leave if she wants to. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_93a55c24 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_9718a22a | type |
You Remind Me of X | |
| Road to Perdition / int_9718a22a | comment |
You Remind Me of X: An inversion of the regular usage, see Parental Favoritism above. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_9718a22a | |
| Road to Perdition / int_9ad6ea63 | type |
Depth Deception | |
| Road to Perdition / int_9ad6ea63 | comment |
Depth Deception: Michael Jr. approaches the front door of his house, seeing Connor approaching after he has killed his mother and brother, and freezes when Connor appears to stare directly at him through the door's window, but it turns out Connor was actually looking at his own reflection. After Michael realizes this, he has time to hide before Connor leaves the house. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_9ad6ea63 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_9b06e314 | type |
Greater-Scope Villain | |
| Road to Perdition / int_9b06e314 | comment |
Greater-Scope Villain: Historical Domain Character Frank Nitti, who has bigger fish to fry than this whole feud between the Rooneys and the Sullivans. Notably, Michael Sr. realizes that it would be futile to try to bring Nitti down to get to Connor, so his goal instead becomes convincing Nitti that protecting Connor isn't worth the trouble. On an even greater scope, there's Nitti's own boss, Al Capone, who never even appears in the movie. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_9b06e314 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_9d0730f8 | type |
Badass and Child Duo | |
| Road to Perdition / int_9d0730f8 | comment |
Badass and Child Duo: A Whole-Plot Reference to the Ur-Example Lone Wolf and Cub. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_9d0730f8 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
| Road to Perdition / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: Much like oranges in The Godfather, water precedes every major death scene (bath, rain, lake, etc.): Finn McGovern dies on a rainy night, shot in the head by Connor. Connor kills Michael Sr.'s wife, Annie, and son, Peter, as Annie is getting Peter ready for a bath. Rooney meets his end at the barrel of Michael's Thompson submachine gun in a rainstorm. Connor is executed by Michael Sr. while sitting in a bathtub. Michael Sr. and Maguire shoot each other dead in a house right by a lake. Big windows facing the water make the point very clear. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_9d12bbc1 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_9d49c512 | type |
Please Shoot the Messenger | |
| Road to Perdition / int_9d49c512 | comment |
Please Shoot the Messenger: Sullivan first discovers the plot against him when he is given a special note from him (that's actually from Connor) for the first debtor he visits: an offer to forgive the debt if the debtor shoots Sullivan in the head. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_9d49c512 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_9e776765 | type |
Churchgoing Villain | |
| Road to Perdition / int_9e776765 | comment |
Churchgoing Villain: Mike and Mr. Rooney are both Irish Catholic and Mr. Rooney is seen praying in church, but they both also accept that their choices will keep them from ever entering Heaven. See the quote at the top of the page. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_9e776765 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_9ec60b8b | type |
White Shirt of Death | |
| Road to Perdition / int_9ec60b8b | comment |
White Shirt of Death: Michael Sr. himself at the end. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_9ec60b8b | |
| Road to Perdition / int_a03509ce | type |
You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With | |
| Road to Perdition / int_a03509ce | comment |
You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With: Inverted when Sullivan goes on a robbery spree to recruit Capone's support. When he barges into a bank, guns drawn and specifically demanding the off-the-books money they're holding for Capone, the teller's reaction is: | |
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Road to Perdition / int_a03509ce | |
| Road to Perdition / int_a036d3df | type |
Sarcastic Confession | |
| Road to Perdition / int_a036d3df | comment |
Sarcastic Confession: When Michael and son divide up the money they got from Robbing the Mob Bank in another diner, a waitress asks what they do for a living and Michael Jr. bluntly says they're bank robbers, but this is taken as a joke. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_a036d3df | |
| Road to Perdition / int_a0db7803 | type |
It's Personal | |
| Road to Perdition / int_a0db7803 | comment |
It's Personal: During the exchange of gunfire in Rance's hotel suite, Michael shoots a glass lamp, which shatters and the fragments leave lots of nasty cuts on the left side of Maguire's face. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_a0db7803 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_a2022cc9 | type |
Killed Mid-Sentence | |
| Road to Perdition / int_a2022cc9 | comment |
Killed Mid-Sentence: Finn McGovern. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_a2022cc9 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_a3c6c2b7 | type |
"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner | |
| Road to Perdition / int_a3c6c2b7 | comment |
"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: Rooney does have one last thing to say to Michael before he gets gun down by him. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_a3c6c2b7 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_a6cda066 | type |
Rule of Three | |
| Road to Perdition / int_a6cda066 | comment |
Rule of Three: Maguire tries three times to kill the Sullivan father and son; first at the diner, at the hotel, and finally the lake house. He manages to kill the father, but not the son. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_a6cda066 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_a796d2a6 | type |
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy | |
| Road to Perdition / int_a796d2a6 | comment |
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: In particular, the scene in the rain where Michael Sullivan Sr. takes out all of Rooney's goons. 5 or 6 of them stand, feet planted still in place, firing one-handed and hitting absolutely nothing. Sullivan, of course, mows them down expertly with his Thompson submachine gun from a ways off. Both the goons' hilariously ineffective counterattack and Sullivan's ridiculous aim with an inaccurate spray-fire weapon are unrealistic, to say the least. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_a796d2a6 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_a81216dc | type |
Too Much Alike | |
| Road to Perdition / int_a81216dc | comment |
Too Much Alike: The reason for Sullivan's distant relationship with Michael, Jr. | |
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| Road to Perdition / int_abad35b4 | type |
Soundtrack Dissonance | |
| Road to Perdition / int_abad35b4 | comment |
Soundtrack Dissonance: A cheery jazz tune is heard during the bar scene when Michael kills Tony Calvino and his bouncer, the song ending as Michael shoots the bouncer. Maguire's introduction where he finishes off a dying victim he found at a bloody crime scene is scored with a peppy, old-timey Dixieland jazz number. The shootout in the rain is underscored by a peaceful piano line. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_abad35b4 | |
| Road to Perdition / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
| Road to Perdition / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: Sullivan when he reads the message from the Rooneys that if Tony kills him, his debts will be paid; Sullivan then realizes that one of the Rooneys (Connor specifically) has targeted his son and frantically tries to call home, and another silent one when he realizes in the diner that Maguire is a Psycho for Hire there to kill him. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_ad1db87c | |
| Road to Perdition / int_ad54954f | type |
Punk in the Trunk | |
| Road to Perdition / int_ad54954f | comment |
Punk in the Trunk: Michael Jr. hides in the trunk of his father's car when he goes to talk to Finn McGovern. | |
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Road to Perdition / int_ad54954f | |
| Road to Perdition / int_aed65980 | type |
All for Nothing | |
| Road to Perdition / int_aed65980 | comment |
All for Nothing: Connor's father already knew his son was ripping him off, making the murder and all subsequent events unnecessary. | |
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Film Noir | |
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Film Noir: Both a Homage and a Deconstruction of the genre. | |
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Bottomless Magazines | |
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Bottomless Magazines: Zigzagged in the hotel shootout between Michael Sr. and Harlen Maguire. Maguire fires six shots from a five-round shotgun, while Michael has four bullets in a seven-round pistol magazine (when Michael fires the shot that disfigures Maguire, the slide on Michael's pistol locks back, indicating that the magazine is empty). | |
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Moral Myopia | |
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Moral Myopia: A rare villain-to-hero example. Connor kills Michael's family, so Michael asks Connor's father to help him get revenge. Michael didn't get the irony of his own petition. | |
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Sweet Tooth | |
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Sweet Tooth: Maguire pouring about half a cup of sugar into his coffee. And, well, look what it does to his teeth… | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: From probably the least foul-mouthed character: | |
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Battle in the Rain | |
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Battle in the Rain: A classic: (SPOILERS). There's a recurring motif throughout the film that water equals death, too. | |
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Contract on the Hitman | |
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Contract on the Hitman: In the second act of the film, John Rooney puts a hit out on Michael because he knows that Michael won't stop until Connor is dead. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": Michael Sr. does one off-screen when he finds Annie and Peter dead. Also, Annie screams it moments before Connor shoots her and Peter, also off-screen. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: Jr. and Sr. arrive at their relatives' beach house, with John and Connor both dead. Too bad nobody told the hitman who was chasing them. | |
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Supporting Protagonist | |
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Supporting Protagonist: Michael Jr. | |
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Hyper-Competent Sidekick | |
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Michael is John Rooney's adopted son, Connor is John's biological son. Michael has been a Hypercompetent Sidekick for years for the Rooneys, with a weighty reputation in the underworld, while Connor is an incompetent coward who's seen as dead weight by the Chicago Mafia (and allowed to die when the one person who still cared about him is murdered). Michael is quiet and taciturn, Connor is a sniveling Stepford Smiler. | |
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Badass Longcoat | |
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Badass Longcoat: Everyone (except Michael Jr.) wears one. | |
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Getaway Driver | |
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Getaway Driver: Michael teaches his son to become one for him when they start Robbing the Mob Bank to force Capone to give up Connor. It doesn't work in the long run because of course Michael Jr. drives a very slow getaway car at first. | |
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Psychotic Smirk | |
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Psychotic Smirk: Again, Connor Rooney. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After the death of John Rooney, Nitti no longer has a reason to protect Connor, and actually wants him dead because Connor is an idiot and would be a total liability once he inherited his father's legacy. Nitti decides to kill two birds with one stone and buys peace with Michael by no longer protecting Connor. When Michael enters the hotel to kill Connor, Nitti's goons operate the elevator and open the door of Connor's room for him. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curbstomp Battle: The final shootout between Michael Senior and Rooney's bodyguards. He doesn't even get a scratch on him. | |
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Adaptation Name Change | |
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Adaptation Name Change: A very slight example. In The Movie, "John Looney" becomes "John Rooney" and "Michael O'Sullivan" becomes "Michael Sullivan". Interestingly, though Looney likely had his name changed so that the piece's villain wouldn't have a comical-sounding name, "John Looney" is only a lightly-fictionalized version of the real Irish gangster in 1930s Rock Island. | |
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Gracefully Demoted | |
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Gracefully Demoted: Nitti sees himself as simply the interim leader of the Chicago Outfit, and fully expects to step down once Capone is out of prison and can re-assume control. note This never came to pass, as by the time Capone was out, he had caught a bad case of syphilis and was in no condition to rule a criminal empire. Nitti would lead the outfit until his own death by suicide in 1943. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: The couple on the farm, who Michael goes to live with at the end. The comic subverts this — Michael arrives to find them both dead, and immediately gets shot as well. | |
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Beyond Redemption | |
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Beyond Redemption: This is almost the exact meaning of "perdition" — being doomed to go to hell once and for all, with no chance of salvation (hence Rooney's "none of us will see heaven"). | |
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Kubrick Stare | |
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Kubrick Stare: Connor gets a very unsettling one after the "apology" scene, complete with a slow zoom-in and a rack focus to bring his face into detail. | |
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Thousand-Yard Stare: When Michael Sr. arrives home, he finds Michael Jr. sitting at the table, just staring ahead and continuing to do so, the camera lingering on him as his father runs upstairs to find what has happened to the rest of his family. | |
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Ambiguously Gay | |
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Ambiguously Gay: Rance is very fussy, flamboyant, and speaks in a somewhat effeminate manner. When he calls up the hotel staff from the bridal suite, he tells them not to wish him congratulations, because "there is no Mrs. Rance and I am all the better for it." | |
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Not Quite Dead | |
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Maguire's plot-irrelevant crime scene photography, showing him as an entirely amoral and psychotic ice-cold killer when he finishes off the Not Quite Dead victim. | |
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Composite Character | |
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Composite Character: Maguire is a combination of all of the random mooks from the graphic novel. | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story: There was a Rock Island, Illinois gangster by the name of John Patrick Looney. He betrayed a formerly loyal lieutenant of his, the resulting feud led to the death of his son, and he was eventually arrested for the murder of a lawyer named William Gabel. | |
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The Oner | |
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The Oner: Late in the film, when Michael goes to kill Connor, the camera tracks him from his arrival on the 14th floor, down the hall, through Connor's room and into the bathroom where Michael gives Connor a Boom, Headshot!. As Michael leaves the room, the camera halts, but the door moves to show Connor's corpse in the bathtub. | |
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Concealment Equals Cover | |
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Concealment Equals Cover: Subverted. Rance runs away and disappears behind a wall when the gunfight between Sullivan and Maguire breaks out, but the pellets from Maguire's shotgun easily penetrated the plaster wall and killed him anyway. Sullivan survives because he's hiding behind a large, steel strongbox. | |
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TagLine | |
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Tag Line: Four. Pray for Michael Sullivan. Every father is a hero to his son. Every son holds the future for his father. The innocence of a son is surpassed only by the father's will to save it. | |
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Evil Parents Want Good Kids | |
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Also Sullivan himself towards Michael Jr.; not only does he struggle to connect with his son, but Sullivan later admits he's had mixed feelings as Jr. reminds him of himself. He also has this feeling towards John Rooney; Michael was raised by John Rooney and his career as an enforcer is to pay him back for what Rooney did for him. | |
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