A Bronx Tale - lack of imagination?
I take it plenty people here will have seen "A Bronx Tale" with De Niro and the kid with the awfully funny walk in it? Which brings up another point by the way (sorry, I'm about to digress). Is it a rule that every young kid that is starting off in the mob needs to walk funny? Young Henry Hill does it in Goodfellas, later on Spider does it (before he gets shot in the foot) and then this kid - C.
Anyway, at the end of the film in the funeral parlour, Joe Pesci comes in and he tells C that Sonny saved his life once, the day he got beat in the head with the baseball bat. Then C asks him if the fight was really about a parking place and Pesci tells him no.
Now, what's the reason they don't tell us what the real reason was?
Was it:
1. In there but I missed it?
2. Are they trying to be mysterious and implying that Pesci is so powerful etc. that he will only tell C the absolute minimum?
3. Could they just not come up with a good enough reason?
4. Was the "fight" only a setup to disguise a hit on Pesci? In which case it would not make sense to do it right in front of the bar packed with his crew? Especially not with a baseball bat.
I don't get it...
Anyway, at the end of the film in the funeral parlour, Joe Pesci comes in and he tells C that Sonny saved his life once, the day he got beat in the head with the baseball bat. Then C asks him if the fight was really about a parking place and Pesci tells him no.
Now, what's the reason they don't tell us what the real reason was?
Was it:
1. In there but I missed it?
2. Are they trying to be mysterious and implying that Pesci is so powerful etc. that he will only tell C the absolute minimum?
3. Could they just not come up with a good enough reason?
4. Was the "fight" only a setup to disguise a hit on Pesci? In which case it would not make sense to do it right in front of the bar packed with his crew? Especially not with a baseball bat.
I don't get it...