Top 10: Mexican Standoffs
You don't have to be a particularly savvy filmgoer to know that in the movies henchmen can't aim, Bibles stop bullets and a man is always in love with his tomboy best friend and won't realize it until the end of the film. Little, if anything, feels fresh and truly surprising in movies anymore. But there is one film element that continues to walk the line between convention and cliché: the Mexican standoff.
Two or more characters find themselves in an impossible situation of mutually assured destruction. There's no easy way out of a Mexican standoff -- someone has to die. That's what makes it such a reliable trope for a screenwriter trying to add a little suspense to his story.
Here are the top 10 Mexican standoffs in the movies:
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Reader Comments: 16 Posts
bul@#$%t! You know very little about film.
Top ten Mexican standoffs and NOT ONE included a Mexican or were set in Mexico.
I agree, the true Mexican standoff is at least three people. I'd put the train station scene from The Untouchables around 7 or 8. And the climax of Wanted certainly bent the rules.
I agree, the true Mexican standoff is at least three people. I'd put the train station scene from The Untouchables around 7 or 8. And the climax of Wanted certainly bent the rules.
Most of these aren't Mexican standoffs there just Standoffs ehh
Still a fan of Pulp Fiction's robbery scene with Jules and Vincent vs Ringo and Honey Bunny.
Only a drooling group of moviegeek wannabes would make a list like this and not include The Wild Bunch.
I gave up at after three. I am tired of having to click ten, twenty times to read an article online. Would it have been such a big deal to put two or three on the same page? Do I really need to click on ten pages to read this?
Most Mexican standoffs are so unbelievably played out - often resulting in exasperated cries of "No f***ing way!" from the audience - that even good ones seem lame.
Actually, "Three Kings" is number SEVEN on the list, not number eight -- it says eight in the article.
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