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* [[Forgotten Trope]]: Viewers can be somewhat mystified by the premise for why antagonist Max Cady ([[Robert De Niro]]) felt slighted by protagonist Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte). At the time of release, the prior sexual history of a rape victim was a valid defense that would have lessened Cady's sentence, or might have even kept him out of jail. Nowadays, prior sexual history is inadmissible in rape cases. |
* [[Forgotten Trope]]: Viewers can be somewhat mystified by the premise for why antagonist Max Cady ([[Robert De Niro]]) felt slighted by protagonist Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte). At the time of release, the prior sexual history of a rape victim was a valid defense that would have lessened Cady's sentence, or might have even kept him out of jail. Nowadays, prior sexual history is inadmissible in rape cases. |
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* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Cady is both in exceptionally good shape and terrifyingly smart. |
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Cady is both in exceptionally good shape and terrifyingly smart. |
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* [[He Who Fights Monsters|He Who Fights Monsters:]] While Sam is by no means as good as his 1962 counterpart, he is in essence a good man trying to do right by his family. When Cady gets into his life again, he tries to handle things the legal way at first. However when Cady kept stonewalling him at every turn, he gets desperate and has him beaten, which Cady was able to use against him. During the climax of the movie, Sam is reduced to a snarling, growling beast of a man beating Cady senseless with rocks. |
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* [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place]]: [[Title Drop|Cape Fear]]. |
* [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place]]: [[Title Drop|Cape Fear]]. |
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* [[Ironic Echo]]: In a meta-sense; where Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum played the upstanding lawyer and the sadistic rapist in the original, their cameo roles in the remake essentially place them on the opposite sides, with Mitchum playing a police detective sympathetic to Bowden's plight and Peck playing Cady's attorney. |
* [[Ironic Echo]]: In a meta-sense; where Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum played the upstanding lawyer and the sadistic rapist in the original, their cameo roles in the remake essentially place them on the opposite sides, with Mitchum playing a police detective sympathetic to Bowden's plight and Peck playing Cady's attorney. |
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