intended by the writers and director Ha - now we're getting into that authorial intention question which I said (twice!) that I'd expand on, and then never did!
Unless Doyle had special cornering bullets, there's no way he made that shot. *puts on list to watch tonight when room-mate and child are out*
you see this exact scene in a million westerns and cop shows when the non-violent love interest (sorry!) is forced to kill in order to save the violent hero of the piece. Yeah, but I don't care about those shows! *g*
because it looks like they were just following their plan, with Doyle maybe putting himself at extra risk to avoid taking Bodie out. Well, you can say that about Ojuka or MWaP or DiaG, for example, too - Bodie just pre-empted a plan that was being followed anyway, so what counts and what doesn't?
So that little acknowledging nod ... you take that to be just a simple "Hiya," and not "Thanks, mate, I owe you one."? Absolutely not. I take it to mean something along the lines of "Thanks for being here, thanks for caring, thanks for working as my partner even when we're not together, thanks for watching my back, thanks for coming to me at the end, thanks for being still alive, thanks for wanting me to still be alive, this is our life, this is what we do, look, we did it again, it all came out okay, not to worry, we got away with it this time as well, we did our job, well done us, my god I want to fuck you silly right now, fancy a drink when the Cow finally lets us go?". Roughly. *g*
the scene surely only exists to show us Bodie saving Doyle Yes of course, and to show us the depth of relationship between them too, in Bodie's competent panic, in Doyle's silence, in the way they're together in the ambulance, etc etc. Again, back to my original question, it's all part of the essence of the characterisation, and trying to take one part of it - did Bodie technically save Doyle or would Doyle have lived until Cowley got there? - doesn't make any sense. There's an amalgamation of motives and emotions and so on that go into making them both. Yes, each scene is there for a purpose - exactly - but each scene only works in relation with all the other scenes, all the other parts of a characterisation that we, as individual fans, pick out for ourselves as meaning "Bodie and Doyle"...
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Ha - now we're getting into that authorial intention question which I said (twice!) that I'd expand on, and then never did!
Unless Doyle had special cornering bullets, there's no way he made that shot.
*puts on list to watch tonight when room-mate and child are out*
you see this exact scene in a million westerns and cop shows when the non-violent love interest (sorry!) is forced to kill in order to save the violent hero of the piece.
Yeah, but I don't care about those shows! *g*
because it looks like they were just following their plan, with Doyle maybe putting himself at extra risk to avoid taking Bodie out.
Well, you can say that about Ojuka or MWaP or DiaG, for example, too - Bodie just pre-empted a plan that was being followed anyway, so what counts and what doesn't?
So that little acknowledging nod ... you take that to be just a simple "Hiya," and not "Thanks, mate, I owe you one."?
Absolutely not. I take it to mean something along the lines of "Thanks for being here, thanks for caring, thanks for working as my partner even when we're not together, thanks for watching my back, thanks for coming to me at the end, thanks for being still alive, thanks for wanting me to still be alive, this is our life, this is what we do, look, we did it again, it all came out okay, not to worry, we got away with it this time as well, we did our job, well done us, my god I want to fuck you silly right now, fancy a drink when the Cow finally lets us go?". Roughly. *g*
the scene surely only exists to show us Bodie saving Doyle
Yes of course, and to show us the depth of relationship between them too, in Bodie's competent panic, in Doyle's silence, in the way they're together in the ambulance, etc etc. Again, back to my original question, it's all part of the essence of the characterisation, and trying to take one part of it - did Bodie technically save Doyle or would Doyle have lived until Cowley got there? - doesn't make any sense. There's an amalgamation of motives and emotions and so on that go into making them both. Yes, each scene is there for a purpose - exactly - but each scene only works in relation with all the other scenes, all the other parts of a characterisation that we, as individual fans, pick out for ourselves as meaning "Bodie and Doyle"...