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maybe his punishment could help reflect on how twisted he was?
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A problem I've frequently seen with this sort of thinking is building a situation where "killin's to good for 'em".
The first time I noticed it was in Death Wish 2. This gang had repeatedly raped and tormented his poor little hispanic maid over a period of time and in the end they get killed. Not good enough.
There is a dramatic principle called "catharsis" that says that you have to be able to process and satisfy the emotions you arouse in the work. Failing that leaves a residue on the audience. Death WIsh audiences swept out of the theater looking for some deserving punk to beat to death.
The same thing in the book version of "Man On Fire"...made into a film with Denzel Washington and moved from Europe to Mexico (EXCELLENT film about how Mexican crime works) In the movie the victim miraculously survives her kidnapping (I doubt I'm spoiling what is an obvious Hollywood ending) But in the book, after the girl has been built up as this wonderfully sensitive, caring, wonderful person...she's brutally raped for a week by scumbags then allowed to choke to death on her own vomit.
And what happens to them? The good guy shoots them. It just doesn't get the job done.
The Hollywood movie code of the forties and fifties led to a lot of gangster movies where some dashing asshole would carve the world up and become widely admired by kids like Pacino's "Scarface"...but in the end get shot by cops to show that crime doesn't pay. Not a message that got through to the bigshot wannabes that loved George Raft, Cagney et al.
What I'm getting out, death isn't an easy fix.
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no matter what our Penny Dreadfuls might say.
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Ah, you knew Penny. I dated all those Dreadful girls. Lots of fun when they weren't preaching.