Before I begin I just wanted to once again state that there are spoilers in this post relating to the plot and events of The Devil's Rejects. Granted this movie came out in 2005 so by now everyone who wants to see it probably has but just in case you haven't and have plans to, do not read further as this is going to ruin the ending for you. This is really only a question to the people who also have watched 'the Devil's Rejects'.
I recently rewatched Rob Zombie's 2005 gory horror cult hit that was known as 'the Devil's Rejects' and towards the end there was a scene that completely turned the usual dynamic of the story on its head. Case in point this family of derganged sadistic killers (Otis B. Driftwood, Baby Firefly, Captain Spaulding, Tiny, Mother Firefly and some guy named Rufus) meet their match in the form of Sheriff Wydell who at first tries to 'walk the line' to try and capture them but after realising that the family (in particular Mother Firefly) are responsible for his brother's death he finally loses it and murders Mother Firefly an then sets off the kill the rest of the family. He captures them and tortures them brutally in their old house using the same sick methods they had always used on their own victims.
Now considering that over the course of this movie, the Firefly kids had killed more than their fair share of innocent people I was quite ready to root for Wydell in this situation and even though he still ultimatley fails in killing them he does brutalise them permenantly and leaving hideous and broken scars. Naturally though even when the family escape they aren't going to survive and ultimatley they get shot down by police while driving through a ploice blockade in a final blaze of glory.
But my question is this.... if they had survived and had gotten away with it. Do you still think they would go back to their old murderous ways? After all up until then they had no idea how it felt to be the helpless victim in this situation. To be mocked about the deaths of their loved ones, to be humiliated and suffer horrible pain on an endless loop and losing all hope for survival. Up until then it had all been one big game to them with no consequences. But now that they had lived through that exact experiance they always gave people, would they be able to just torture and kill again.... without at least staring at their disfiguring wounds? Or without second thinking what it's like to lose a loved one?
Part of me thinks that maybe they developed some kind of concience from that whole experiance or, failing that, at least a sort of fear. Like a dread or foreboding as they now remember the consequences of their actions and how it could well occur again. I certainly think there would at least be some form of hesitation, it would be kind of hard to imagine they would just forget about Sheriff Wydell in a hurry.
Just like the person who always juggled chainsaws because he never had any consequences and then one day loses a finger, the next time they tried there would be some kind of second thought.
So what do those of the Escapist who have seen The Devil's Rejects think? Would the Firefly family (had they been allowed to live) been permenantly effected by that whole incident? And if so how do you think they would have changed?
I recently rewatched Rob Zombie's 2005 gory horror cult hit that was known as 'the Devil's Rejects' and towards the end there was a scene that completely turned the usual dynamic of the story on its head. Case in point this family of derganged sadistic killers (Otis B. Driftwood, Baby Firefly, Captain Spaulding, Tiny, Mother Firefly and some guy named Rufus) meet their match in the form of Sheriff Wydell who at first tries to 'walk the line' to try and capture them but after realising that the family (in particular Mother Firefly) are responsible for his brother's death he finally loses it and murders Mother Firefly an then sets off the kill the rest of the family. He captures them and tortures them brutally in their old house using the same sick methods they had always used on their own victims.
Now considering that over the course of this movie, the Firefly kids had killed more than their fair share of innocent people I was quite ready to root for Wydell in this situation and even though he still ultimatley fails in killing them he does brutalise them permenantly and leaving hideous and broken scars. Naturally though even when the family escape they aren't going to survive and ultimatley they get shot down by police while driving through a ploice blockade in a final blaze of glory.
But my question is this.... if they had survived and had gotten away with it. Do you still think they would go back to their old murderous ways? After all up until then they had no idea how it felt to be the helpless victim in this situation. To be mocked about the deaths of their loved ones, to be humiliated and suffer horrible pain on an endless loop and losing all hope for survival. Up until then it had all been one big game to them with no consequences. But now that they had lived through that exact experiance they always gave people, would they be able to just torture and kill again.... without at least staring at their disfiguring wounds? Or without second thinking what it's like to lose a loved one?
Part of me thinks that maybe they developed some kind of concience from that whole experiance or, failing that, at least a sort of fear. Like a dread or foreboding as they now remember the consequences of their actions and how it could well occur again. I certainly think there would at least be some form of hesitation, it would be kind of hard to imagine they would just forget about Sheriff Wydell in a hurry.
Just like the person who always juggled chainsaws because he never had any consequences and then one day loses a finger, the next time they tried there would be some kind of second thought.
So what do those of the Escapist who have seen The Devil's Rejects think? Would the Firefly family (had they been allowed to live) been permenantly effected by that whole incident? And if so how do you think they would have changed?
