Today we’re talking THE LAST BOY SCOUT A timeless look at divorced, white, masculine aggrievement, The Last Boy Scout chronicles a cooler-than-life former secret service agent (Bruce Willis) who saved the president's life but crossed the wrong deep state conspiracy. Cast aside by the country he saved and betrayed by his adulterous wife, Joe must now team up with ungrateful former QB Jimmy (Damon Wayans) to solve the murder of the disgraced player's girlfriend and expose the sicko Senator and NFL owner responsible. --------------------------------- Sign up at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult Support the show for $5/month and get a weekly bonus episode of Minion Death Cult as well as our brand new weekly live show: DEATH CHAT 500 (also available in podcast form). That's TWO bonus episodes a week. Also get access to our entire back catalogue including BUTT FEST 2000 with Bryan Quinby; live-reads of My Antifa Lover, Rodham, and Ladies First: A MAGA Hat Romance; movie episodes like Believe, To Die For, and Loqueesha; and hundreds more.
Yeah, so that's the opening, the infamous opening scene of The Last Boy Scout.
And I finally watched the movie and it is just from top to bottom something else.
Let me pull up my notes here.
Well, I mean, it has to be, because like I said, when you asked me if I had seen it, I said, oh, yeah, I remember.
I remember the infamous scene.
And I just assumed that was the culmination of the movie.
Yeah, no way you can explain what you're witnessing is through an entire movie.
It's not even that's the first scene.
It's not even like the inciting incident.
It's it has almost nothing to do with the plot.
It's like tangentially related to the plot because the plot is about football gambling and just the people who were gambling pushed this guy so far that he brought a gun onto the field.
But like the movie isn't about avenging that guy or clearing his name or anything.
It's just about the gambling.
This is just how bad the gambling is.
That's that's that's all this scene represents.
Right?
We don't even hear about this again.
He just references it when the owner is talking about how there's no more heroes left in football.
Everybody wants a million dollar contract or else they're going to shoot everybody else on the field.
And this is what I want to say.
This is the first in what are many instances of improper gun ownership.
This is one of many unsafe firearms practices that we see in the movie.
Can't do that.
Okay, so let's get into the plot here.
It needs to be stated how cool Bruce Willis is in this movie.
He is the coolest guy possible.
He's, I think, only cooler in the movie Hudson Hawk, where he's literally a blues singing art thief.
I think that's the only time he's been cooler.
I need to see that one.
OK.
Yeah, he is extremely cool.
He's extremely cool because he's he's he's experienced ego death.
You know, he like he he's he's beyond caring about what cool is, but just makes him so cool.
Totally.
And like so calm because he's like he's like, I'm basically already dead.
So I may as well just, you know, play the cards I'm dealt and and be awesome.
Yeah, I mean, so much suffering comes from attachment to your wife and daughter.
Like if you learn, if you learn, if you learn that you can achieve true enlightenment, which is to just go to Las Vegas for days at a time and then get into a fight with your daughter when you get home.
Yeah, I'm going to tell my kid to start being shittier to me so I can be more of a badass in my older age.
Totally.
So I think like very early in the movie, Bruce Willis is coming back from Vegas and his boss calls him with a job, you know, because he's a private investigator.
And so he's got a job where he wants a client, you know, needs protection, needs somebody like an escort essentially to watch her back.
And Bruce Willis in a very cool way where you don't think he's gonna take the job 'cause he doesn't need the job, but then he eventually does take the job, but it's in a really cool way.
Says, "Fine, like I'll meet up with you later." And then he goes home, I guess, for the first time in like a week or two weeks, instantly fighting with his bitch wife, Uh, she just, you know, she's just mad.
She's mad that he's gone.
Now she's mad that he's home early.
Like you can't make, can't make these broads happy.
Um, and that's when our private investigator Bruce Willis notices that the toilet seat is up.
And therefore deduces that his wife is having an affair with on him.
And he does this.
He asks her this question by pointing a gun by pointing his gun at the closet and saying, who's in the closet?
And she's like, no, no, uh, Joe or whatever your name, Joe, you're crazy.
You're literally insane.
And he's like, no, I'm going to shoot the closet unless you tell me not to, because there's a man in there that you're having sex with.
Uh, and he counts to three and she's still like, Joe, you're, you don't, you're crazy.
You're imagining things.
And then finally, when he gets to three, she says, no, stop.
Uh, and out of the closet comes his boss.
Honestly, there's a certain demographic that can never see this clip.
Because she is.
She's totally gaslighting him.
At one point she's like, listen, I'll tell you who's in the closet when you go to therapy.
Men would rather fire a loaded gun into their closet than go to therapy.
Yeah, it's just she's calling him crazy.
She's doing textbook gaslighting in real time with the real result.
And he believes it so much that he's going to shoot, going to shoot the closet.
I called it to when we were watching.
I was like, because he goes, who's in the closet?
And right when he said that, I was like, oh, he's going to fucking shoot the closet.
And he did.
He he he almost did.
Uh, but then when he comes out, when his boss comes out and he's like, Hey Joe, you know, we go way back, like don't kill me or whatever.
Uh, and then, um, it looks like he's going to shoot him, but instead he shoots the wedding photo that's on the side table.
Well, he pivots real hard.
He like, Has the gun trained on the boss and just swings to the side real hard, which is who his wife kind of shoots between them.
But I was kind of worried that he was like shooting at her.
I'm like just like at her, but like not trying to shoot her, which is kind of what he did, and it was a little stressful.
I thought he was going to kill her right there.
He's scared.
He scared her for sure.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, probably your second use of improper gun operation of firing, you know, bullets inside of your house when you don't like want to actually kill anybody.
Just like going to shoot the closet.
I love the idea.
She's like, well, you'll only not want me to shoot the closet if there's a person inside of there.
Like, I don't know, you probably shouldn't shoot the closet under most circumstances.
Yeah, do you know what's behind the closet?
I don't know exactly the layout of this house.
Is this safe?
Are you going to like, you know, rupture a gas line?
Like, what are you going to do here?
But yeah, in a little bit of dramatic irony or thematic, I don't know, a thematic element, he shoots the wedding photo, shattering the frame, casting it to the ground.
So I looked up this clip on YouTube.
By the way, if you search, if you search for the last Boy Scout on YouTube, you will get suggested at least two different videos about infidelity, about women cheating on their men.
One of them was like, Uber driver catches his girlfriend cheating on him.
She instantly regrets it.
Like that got suggested to me like twice just from searching the last Boy Scout.
There's a demographic of men who watch this movie.
And I was looking at the comments on.
I was looking at the comments.
Let me get back to my notes, sorry.
On this clip and BHMCH had the top comment.
This is 24,000 likes.
His avatar is classic rock music.
It just says classic rock music.
I mean, well, you know what he's about, you know?
No questions here.
Know what kind of guy he is.
Yeah, absolutely.
Classic rock guy.
He says, so many of us men get cheated on because when we confront our wives or girlfriends and they tell us we are crazy, we believe them instead of just putting a bullet into the closet.
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