Buzz, his friend, destroyed the evidence already. Red walks towards them both and tells Butch that he is unarmed and thus, Butch should drop his gun too. Before walking towards Butch and Buzz, Red tells the FBI sniper not to shoot until he tells him when to shoot. He proceeds unarmed towards Butch and Buzz to talk out the negotiation. Observing this, something inside Red says that maybe he made the right choice by letting Butch go the juvenile jail. Buzz initially walks towards his mother but then runs towards Butch, and hugging him. Butch asks Buzz to start moving towards the police and his Mama while he himself starts crawling away from the police. The police officers and Rangers start collecting all the gum they have. Butch then decides to ask for “some candy and gum and shit like that”. This, right here should tell you everything you need to know about Butch’s character. The mother reluctantly agrees despite her faith of Jehovah’s Witness not allowing these practices. He shouts that Buzz be taken to roller-coaster rides, and be allowed to eat cotton candy as well. How does Butch respond? Do you remember the list that Butch asked Buzz to make? Butch yells the list to Buzz’s mother as part of his negotiation to give up Buzz. Clint Eastwood says under his breath, “Goddamn, this son of a bitch”, to the megaphone. The mother yells in the megaphone that she will give whatever money Butch demands in exchange of her son. In the mix, Buzz’s mother is helicoptered in as well to persuade Buzz to leave Butch. Butch doesn’t know that it was Red who sent him to jail when he was a juvenile. Do you think Butch will shoot Buzz? Is he giving a threat or stating a fact? Buzz quickly tells Butch that he threw the pistola in the well after shooting Butch. This shriek of the megaphone implies the impending uneasiness that is to follow. How do you figure the climax would pan out? The Climax:Ĭlint Eastwood plays Clint Eastwood and takes the megaphone to start negotiating with Butch. Now, you know the characters, and the set-up. He has also shot Butch in the belly and is sad about it though he doesn’t regret it. He stole a Halloween costume while with Butch. T J Lowther’s Buzz –Ī boy of 8, who is being raised by a single devout Jehovah’s Witness mother. According to Red, if Butch didn’t go to jail then his abusive father would have been granted the custody, turning Butch into a criminal in years to come. Red thought that he was saving Butch and doing him a favor by sending him jail. He bribed a judge with a T-Bone and got a juvenile Butch a sentence of 4 years. He is affectionate towards his hostage, Buzz and tells him that he has only ever killed two people in life – one, who hurt his mother and second, the guy who hurt Buzz. He seems to have a moral compass of some sort but believes stealing is right if you don’t have enough money at the moment. What We Know About Characters: Kevin Costner’s Butch – Butch doesn’t retaliate but lovingly chases Buzz and settles under the tree. Just before the climax, due to a series of very well written events, Buzz shoots Butch and flees in the fields. A night before Butch asks Buzz to create a list of all the things that his Mum doesn’t allow him to do. During the journey of escaping the Texas Rangers and Police, the hostage Buzz develops Stockholm syndrome towards Kevin Costner’s character Butch. are chasing down Kevin Costner, an escaped convict, who has taken an 8 year old as hostage. The Set-Up of the Climax:Ĭlint Eastwood, A Texas Ranger and Co. A good ending brings together everything that you have already learnt about those characters and makes the events unfold in a manner where we can empathize with the tragic outcome. I can make a case that you can simply watch the last 20 mins of the movie and would still have a catharsis of some form. A Perfect World in its final 20 mins of screen time, is a movie in itself. This theory implies that the action of the whole tragedy will be building towards the denouncement of the complication in the end or climax. Aristotle’s Poetic mentioned the theory of Poetic Unity. Usually, the climaxes are meant to be cathartic. (I highly recommend that you watch the movie first before reading further but if you haven’t watched it yet, then this should be a good exercise in interpreting how according to the filmmaker in you the climax should pan out – I’ll give you the set-up and what we know about the characters.) But let’s talk about what’s perfect about the ending of A Perfect World. A lot of people may debate that Eastwood may not be counted as an Auteur but I can make a pretty good case that he indeed is an auteur of highest order. I’ve come to expect nothing less from a Clint Eastwood movie. Even an ending that is tragic can lift you up because if done right, it is cathartic. If a movie can end well, it can lift you up in ways more than one.
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