Happy Gilmore (#ad) is about an aspiring hockey player who actually ends up playing golf due to some unexpected and unforeseen circumstances.
If someone is threatening you, what should you do?
What is the right thing to do in such a situation? If you were given the chance or opportunity to do so, would you tell someone you love and trust that there is a person who is threatening you?Happy Gilmore and his beloved grandmother
In the Happy Gilmore film, we get introduced to the title character who had to bring his grandmother (played by Frances Bay) to a nursing home because her house and things were taken from her by the IRS. Happy thought and expected that his grandmother would be treated well in that place and that no harm would come to her.Unlikable character in Happy Gilmore
But the guy (named Hal L, played by Ben Stiller) who runs the nursing home is a despicable and horrible person who has no qualms mistreating the elderly people there and making them knit things for him so he could sell them and profit from them. In short, he’s completely, absolutely, totally horrid, and he really needs to pay for his evil deeds.Why did Happy’s grandma listen to the threats?
Anyway, Happy Gilmore (played by Adam Sandler) had no idea what was really going on in that place. When he visited his grandmother, she had the chance and opportunity to tell her grandson what was happening, but the guy who runs the nursing home was secretly threatening her so she wouldn’t say anything.
When that scene happened, I wondered why the grandmother didn’t tell Gilmore anyway even if the guy was threatening her. If it was just the 2 of them in her room, she could have the time to properly explain things to him and let him know what Hal was up to, and he wouldn’t be able to interfere since the grandmother and grandson were having a private conversation.
Happy Gilmore could have helped his grandma
As soon as Happy knew the truth, I was sure he would have taken her away from that place right away, and the guy would never have been able to carry out his threat to hurt her if she blabbed about what he was doing. So, it seemed that there wasn’t anything that could happen to her if she told Gilmore what was going on.Would Happy Gilmore ever think that his grandma was lying to him?
Then, I considered that, perhaps, the grandmother thought that Happy wouldn’t believe her words or that the guy might be able to make it seem to Gilmore that she was just making things up because she was old or something like that.I didn’t think Happy Gilmore would believe others over his own grandmother (especially since we saw how much he really cares about her and how much he loves her), but maybe that was just what the grandmother thought and that was why she didn’t tell her grandson what was happening.
I still wish that she had though so she didn’t have to stay in that horrid place for a moment longer and so the other old people there could be saved from Hal and so that he could be held accountable for his despicable actions.
What do you think? Could this particular scene in the movie be done differently? Was it right and believable for Happy’s grandma not to tell him what was going on even though she had the chance to do so?
*Notes:
-Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki (CC:BY-SA) based on the image by CoDLia (CC:BY-SA) from deviantArt
-Image is meant to symbolize what one can do when they are being threatened – try to fight back and don’t be silent
-First pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
-YouTube video features the Happy Gilmore film trailer
-This was previously published elsewhere