Run for the Border: Difference between revisions

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On the other side of the Rio Grande"''|'''Johnny Rodriguez''', "Run For The Border"}}

 

== Films ==

* ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]''. While fleeing from their pursuers:

'''Butch:''' All they got in Mexico is sweat. There's too much of that here. }}

** They eventually decide to go to [[Bolivian Army Ending|Bolivia]].

* In one version of ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' the heroes flee to Mexico.

* Spoofed in ''[[Super Troopers]]'', where one of the highway patrolmen scares three stoners by pretending to get shot by a criminal (another patrolman in disguise), who hijacks the police car they're in the backseat of, and is intent on escaping to Mexico, despite Canada being only a few miles away.

* ''[[The Wild Bunch]]'' heads to Mexico after a robbery goes to hell and ends up getting involved in Pancho Villa's war for independence.

* Mexico is Charlie Sheen's destination in ''[[The Chase (film)|The Chase]]''. {{spoiler|And, ultimately, Kristy Swanson's, too.}}

== Films ==

* Happened in ''[[The Day After Tomorrow]]'' because Mexico was far enough south that the new ice age would be less deadly to people from northern United States. One especially snarky [http://community.livejournal.com/m15m/2025.html#cutid1 web review] put it thusly:

* The movie ''[[Fortress]]'' (with ''[[Highlander]]'' star Christopher Lambert) has the protagonist and his pregnant wife try to leave a dystopian US after it implements a no-births policy to fight the increasing population growth. The film even opens with shots of the heavily crowded international bridges between the US and Mexico.

* ''[[The Sound of Music]]'', though here it's because Austria has been taken over by [[Nazi Germany]].

* Inverted in the opening of ''[[The A-Team (film)|The a Team]]'' movie featuring the newly formed team fleeing a Mexican drug lord and his mooks to the U.S. border. The result?

Cue [[Oh Crap]] looks from the Mexicans... followed by an air strike. }}