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This movie is cool in that the protagonist and the antagonist never really meet. The only time I’ve seen this done elsewhere was perhaps S2 of Netflix’s Punish
by oneoff786 4y ago
This movie is cool in that the protagonist and the antagonist never really meet.
The only time I’ve seen this done elsewhere was perhaps S2 of Netflix’s Punisher series. Which was neat and seemingly very intentional but ultimately not really capitalized on for some reason.
- staticautomatic 4y agoNo Country for Old Men did this.
- banana_giraffe 4y agoA similar one is Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. They never meet face to face, indeed the actors were never on set on the same days due to production timing issues.
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoBut they did! In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Seed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Seed
- adventured 4y agoFrank Castle meets and eliminates the main antagonist at the end (Anderson and Eliza Schultz, the wealthy couple). And he has a long fight scene with their hired mercenary (John Pilgrim, the other main antagonist) just prior to that. The Punisher definitely meets them all.
- oneoff786 4y agoHe does meet and fight John at the end, who I was referring to. But in every episode prior they never actually meet. At the police station he is juuust out of view and Frank is leaning in his chair to try and see him. At some other point they have a literal fire fight with approximate knowledge of where the other is but no visibility so they’re just blind firing through wall. Maybe some other choice moments. It’s a very different choice than Fifth Element where their experiences are tangential to each other. The punisher guys are in active conflict, they just never get the opportunity to actually see each other face to face. Until the end. They go to some length with the camera shots to convey this. Idk, I thought it was cool. But ultimately not capitalized on.