Watching Charles Bronson blow away scumbags on TV made me wonder

[tularetom]

There is some kind of "Death Wish" marathon on today and it made me wonder why somebody doesn't do a "Death Wish on Wall Street" movie, where some Bronson type good guy loses his job, home, savings and health insurance to slimy mortgage bankers and financial market arbitrageurs. Assholes in suits instead of ski masks. And then goes after them systematically and deliberately, leading them all to spectacular and gruesome demises to the delight of the audience.

He could finish the movie by bursting into a radio studio that has a golden microphone and whacking the fat bloated commentator that does the bidding of the moneyed elites.

It would all be fictional of course. But I'll bet it would make a lot of money.

[Ian David]

1. Do a google on the history of the Death Wish movies.

If I remember correctly, the original book the movies were based on were meant to be a warning against vigilantism, and the author was upset at how the movies came across.

[rcrush]

2. I'm sure someone is making one.

They already made that movie The International about the worlds largest evil bank and Clive Owen has to take them down. I'll be first in line to see a gorefest on wallstreet movie.

and minor Spoiler for Watchmen --





In a brief scene Lee Iacocca was shot in the head right between his eyes. That made me laugh out loud in the theatre.

[yourout]

3. Death by fountain pen.

Or suffocated by a mountain of forclosure notices.

[pretzel4gore]

4. why no serial killers after liar newsmen or warpig tv anchors?

face it. we are in a controlled media environment (experimental)and the pig is at the top steering, and the entire vehicle is going downhill at 200mph and tires 'r'blown and the pig can SEE the bottom of the hill and the rocks and hungry maggot ghouls waiting with knivesandforks for 7 billion takeouts! (lol) aka we humanity....mr pig gives the brake and gas peddle to Obama, so the BRAKE'S ON and THE GAS iz OFF, so were are slowing a bit, but MR pig MUST surrender the steering wheel and....well, he's thrown rush limbah-humbug out to act as a gazbag windbrake; if that counts for anything(???).
will it stop?
will the disaster be fatal to all humanity, or just the usual kittens, angels and babies etc?
will bush ever go to jail? (that's a joke question, nyuk nyuk!)

[roughsatori]

5. I have thought that murdering people who are actively against equal rights for gay would be great.

A militant armed GLBTQ group using stratigic strike violence against those who are against equal civil rights for all.

In a movie, of course.

[RandomThoughts]

6. Vigilantism

Is a huge theme in movies. Personally I don't like it, but it is a compelling thought for many people. I think it reflects an individuals dissatisfaction with the actions allowed to happen in a society.

When you think about it, revolutions are vigilantism, as is every criminal act. Vigilantism is a statement by an individual that the social contract is broke, his action are then done outside of that contract.

However, it requires the belief that the individual knows more then society. And since society is built from many centuries of thinkers refining rules, many times the vigilante is actually wrong. That is why society has rules, so everybody does not have to figure out what is right and wrong in civic situations, but instead they have guidelines that they follow, and in exchange they get treated fairly.

It could be said in a social context, anyone that treats themselves really good at a cost to the rest of society is in some form being a vigilante, since the person has appointed themselves to make the decision of society, based on what they think is right.

Movie vigilantism is usually framed in a way were everyone will agree that the vigilante was right and is doing good for society(revolution style) But in the real world most vigilantes are wrong(criminal style)

[tularetom]

7. Vigilantism directed against petty thugs misses the entire point

These are not the people who are REALLY fucking us over. It's the guys in suits who pay to have the vigilante movies made to keep us pissed off at the petty thugs. Who pay the bloated radio screechers to divert our attention from the real thieves and killers.

In fact is it really vigilantism when the people rise up and take back their governmental and financial institutions from a corrupt elite who has usurped them for its own ends? Wasn't this country in fact founded on an act of vigilantism?

Vigilantism or not I believe people would cheer wildly at the sight of stock market thieves in expensive suits getting their asses shot off. Not to mention a few media slimeballs along the way

[anonymous171]

10. Vigilantism only makes sense if the target is untouchable through legal channels

Killing off petty criminals never made a lot of sense to me (movie-wise.) Taking out the rich and powerful would be a lot more useful, especially if the law couldn't or wouldn't go after them.

[RandomThoughts]

15. vigilantism and violence

Do not have to go together. I do not support violence.

But yes I agree the idea has been to keep people scared of the thug on the street so they don't see who's really picking there pocket.

And yes revolution is vigilantism, since it changes social order. In cases of breach of social contract I do believe in non-violent vigilantism, but most movies show it as the ability for a few to just decide what is right.

I actually believe society has had different values then the ruling class for a long time. So in that view, every action that was actually done by the status quo was the vigilante action. Since real social justice would be good for the many not the few.

[anonymous171]

8. Why? Because the people who make the movies are those same assholes in suits.

[cloudbase]

9. Been done.

Sort of.

[EFerrari]

11. You should contact a producer. Because you're right. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Michael Douglas, did "Falling Down"....

"Falling Down is a 1993 action/crime film directed by Joel Schumacher. The film stars Michael Douglas in the lead role as William Foster, a social outcast, divorcee, and former defense worker with what his ex-wife (Barbara Hershey) calls "a propensity for violence." The film centers around Foster on what turns out to be the last day of his life as he goes on a murderous rampage across the city of Los Angeles, trying to get home in time for his daughter's birthday party. Along the way, he encounters an array of seemingly trivial situations which drive him into a homicidal rage, often prompting him to make sardonic observations on life, poverty, the economy, and commercialism. The title of the film, referring to Foster's mental collapse, is taken from the title of the nursery rhyme London Bridge is Falling Down, which appears several times during the film.

In a twist of irony, the 1992 Los Angeles Riots broke out as the movie was being filmed."

Wiki....

Love the "twist of Irony" part

[tularetom]

14. It was entertaining but even then good ol' D-Fens didn't really go after the big shots

that were really the ones making his life miserable. He mostly wound up harassing store clerks, gang bangers, customers and staff in a burger joint, a Nazi gun store owner, and other sort of small fry badasses. About the closest he got to dealing with the moneyed classes is when he blasted the old farts in the golf cart. Now if he went back to the offices of the defense contractor who fired him and shot the owner and other executives as they sat in their ginormous offices it would resonate more with today's public.

[hfojvt]

13. What about John Q? He went against the HMOs, sort of.

But he did it the liberal way.

[pinniped]

16. He killed the giggler, man.

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[dustbunnie]

17. Not exactly what you had in mind -

but American Psycho features a few grisly murders of assorted wealthy elite/stockbroker types.

Swimming With Sharks had a great scene where the desperately harassed peon tortures his wealthy elitist boss.

Your premise is interesting. It would make a lot of money I bet.