The Long Good Friday - One Way Ride

Harold Shand's Final Hour

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• long
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• Friday
• Bob
• Hoskins
• Pierce
• Brosnan
• gangsters
• British
• London
• IRA
• Ending
• Scene
• One
• Way
• Ride

[TheBigMac32]

No remake will ever come close to the original so fuck off you mongrel Miami cunt

[kemman85]

Unforgettable ending to an unforgettable film. Hoskins doesn't miss a beat throughout, and the acting here when he knows the game is up is just perfect. And the music is just pefect.

[edn172]

james bond in his early years

[TMS320C5505]

This film is a classic example and a lesson about underestimating who you are taking on. The arrogant London gangster thinks he is taking on "a few paddies", but not till the final scene does he (and the audience) realise that he is taking on a powerful and brutal paramilitary organisation. His outcome is inevitable and does not have to be stated.

[Mandrake474]

@Mandrake474 ps forgot i love this tune

[Mandrake474]

I know its a classic ending and its done superbly by all involved, but If ya gonna die screew it you might as well have a go and I wonder if at any time the man with the gun thought at some point he would be 007

[dogs1905]

are they gonna waste him?

[roglowe]

This was the scene when they told Bob it was only a movie......

[hopebgood]

@mkranger613 He knows he's fucked and that's that!

[mkranger613]

One of the BEST ENDINGS EVER! Harold's "theme" heard when he gets off the conchord, in full blast as he heads off to his death... look on his face at the end, says "Fuck it!"

[wigglesworthh]

@KrillLiberator Well put answer, I see your point. It's funny, years after seeing TLGF, I always remembered this fantastic scene clearly, but I forgot the sound of the music.

[KrillLiberator]

@wigglesworthh Because I don't personally think that it does - it's a slightly ironic reprise of the whole sleazy, hi-gloss, upwardly-mobile theme of Harold's world prior to this, seeing as he's shortly going to be worm-food and anything but glamorous; kind of a sax-led life flashing before his eyes motif...