The Edge (film): Difference between revisions

Then comes the bear. . . .

 

* [[Action Survivor]]: Charles is well-read on surviving in the wild but has no practical experience of anything other than a comfortable life, but stills proves to be the most competent of the three protagonists and {{spoiler|is the last man (or bear) standing by the end}}.

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Charles is incredibly well read, and has accumulated a great deal of knowledge about other cultures and survival techniques over the years. He later proves equally adept at spearing enormous killer bears.

* [[Distracted From Death]]: {{spoiler|Bob dies unnoticed while Charles is trying to signal the rescue plane.}}

* [[Enemy Mine]]: Bob and Charles are not very known to like each other ( {{spoiler|since Bob has an affair with Charles's wife}}), but they team up to kill the bear.

* [[Gold Digger]]: Charles' wife

* [[Jerkass]]: Bob isn't shy about letting Charles know how much he resents him for his wealth and his beautiful wife and all but taunts him about the fact that he wants her for himself--and as we later learn, has been having an affair with her. {{spoiler|There's also that business about planning to kill him, which becomes a [[Moral Event Horizon]] later in the film after Charles has saved his life from the bear and he still presses on with his plan.}}

* [[Nature Hero]]: Played with. The billionaire character is shown to be restless in his privileged life and seems to almost enjoy being lost in the wilderness away from the stresses of his normal life and with a chance to prove he can be survivor. He copes better than his two less well-off companions, though isn't always succesful - notably when he fashions a compass but then fouls up using it by holding it too close to his metal belt buckle.

* [[Perma Stubble]]: Both Charles and Bob have this look for the whole movie.

{{quote| "Today, I'm going to kill the motherfucker."}}

* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: {{spoiler|Bob}}.

** {{spoiler|Entirely possible that Bob did that on purpose in the hopes that the bear would kill Charles and save him the trouble of doing it himself.}}

*** {{spoiler|Or maybe he did want it to kill [[Black Dude Dies First|Stephen]], so there wouldn't be any witnesses.}}

 

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