Happy Gilmore (#ad) is about a guy who finds he’s got some talent at playing golf and ends up playing said sport for the sake of his grandmother.
Villains should pay for their crimes
In a film you’re watching or in a book that you’re reading, when someone does something bad, or when you see or read about the antagonists hurting the protagonists and doing all sorts of evil and horrible things and committing all manner of crimes and the like, don’t you want these villains to get their comeuppance, their retribution?Don’t you want these people to pay for their crimes and misdeeds? Don’t you want the heroes of the story to be able to defeat these characters or send them to prison or something? The same thing can be said in the Happy Gilmore movie.
The bad guy in Happy Gilmore
When we got introduced to the guy (named Hal L, played by Ben Stiller) who runs the nursing home where the main character, Happy Gilmore (played by Adam Sandler), had to take his grandmother (played by Frances Bay) to and when we found out exactly what this guy was up to, what did you feel?
Did you start hating on this guy who was clearly doing something wrong and illegal? Did you want him to pay for his crimes and get punished for his wrongdoings? Who wouldn’t be displeased and annoyed and miffed at what this guy was doing to the old people in that nursing home?
What Happy Gillmore should have done to the antagonist?
Honestly, I thought Happy would eventually end up beating this guy up or something especially since Gilmore did seem to have some violent tendencies (we all saw how he tended to punch people and get into fights with them). If nothing else, I thought that Hal would at least get in some sort of trouble because of what he was doing.Not all the villains in Happy Gilmore are punished for their mistakes
Unfortunately, nothing of the sort happened. It was really great when Happy Gilmore was able to take his grandma away from that nursing home, but I really didn’t like how the guy who ran that place didn’t get any retribution or comeuppance for all the things that he did.He’s despicable, and he should have been imprisoned or something because of what he did. I don’t get why the film just let that part go. Shooter McGavin (played by Christopher McDonald) got his comeuppance for the things that he did, but why didn’t Hal get anything at all?
It was infuriating to think that he was still running the nursing home and was still mistreating the elderly there. What about those old people? Why couldn’t they at least have been saved from him like how Happy's grandma was saved?
Your thoughts and opinions
What do you think about this? Feel free to share your thoughts and opinions by leaving a comment below.*Notes:
-Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki based on the image by Rusembell (CC:BY) from deviantArt
-Image was chosen because the figure looks as if she’s going to avenge someone or make the bad guys pay for their crimes
-First pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
-YouTube video features the Happy Gilmore film trailer
-This was previously published elsewhere