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[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 106 points 1 month ago

My friend owes a sketchy dude money, so he's been asked to "deliver a package" to another sketchy dude 4 hours away. I dont have kids or dependents, so my buddy asks me to help him out. Shit goes side ways and it becomes clear only one of us is gonna make it out alive. He's got a wife and kids, i just have student loans, so i take the gun and hold off the pissed of dudes while he makes a break for it. I take two hits to my right shoulder before giving them the slip. I know I'm not gonna make it to the hospital, so i make my way to the bench on the river walk nearby so that this can be the last thing i see before i die knowing i did at least one good deed.

That's what guys mean when they say that.

[-] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Then the craziest thing happened. A golden retriever walked up to me with a stick. He put it in my lap and I faded out in a blinding white light. I woke up with my arm bandaged in a brightly lit, but eerily silent room. I try to move my arm. "Shit." I reach over with my other arm and push the button to tilt up the powered gurney. "The fuck..." as I sit up and look more closely, my arm has actually been converted into a fully mechanical cyborg arm with what appears to be a modified belt fed StG 44 mounted to it and loosely wrapped in bandages. As I wince in pain, the door flies open. Two thugs dressed in black barge in holding a scruffy doctor by the collar. One points his pistol at me. "There's that motherf--" an eruption of gunfire occurs. I look to my left and there's a smoking hole in bed pillow behind me.

After the smoke clears all three men lay on the ground. I drag myself out of bed and kneel at the doctors side. He has a wound in his abdomen. "Your friend.. they have him.... And his family" he says with some effort. "Where?" I demand. He points to one of the slain thugs. A phone protruded from his hip pocket. I unlock it with his thumb print. GPS coordinates. I stand up, the sound of spent shells rolling on the ground and my new arm whirring. Looking at it, I know what I must do now. I pick up the ammo bag next to the bed and sling it over my shoulder and walk out the door.

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[-] BurnedDonutHole@ani.social 14 points 1 month ago

(っ˘̩╭╮˘̩)っ

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done.

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[-] M137@lemmy.world 83 points 1 month ago
[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago
[-] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

The White Snow is a symbol of purity a Void of sin blood is the sacrifice for mankind a symbol as seen in the hit TV show Jesus Christ, this is a desire to sacrifice yourself for the sins of the world.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 18 points 1 month ago

Ah if it isnt my high school English teacher

[-] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Soldier! Drop and give me 20 essays now!

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[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Maybe we can talk about how a shit load of men fantasize about dying a peaceful and necessary death instead of wanting to live or having to live in reality?

Cuz fuck, that's so bleak.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Is that not normal?

You don't want to detonate the explosives while you're still dangling from the bridge pylon because the enemy army is advancing and there's not enough time to get away safely before they cross?

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[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

I get it but at the same time I do not. It is a reference to a movie or something?

[-] YoFrodo@lemmy.world 110 points 1 month ago

Many pieces of film/TV have scenes where a guy has been mortally wounded doing something for the greater good and then bleeds out in a scene like this. It's like a melancholic righteous death

[-] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago

Blade Runner 2049 reference maybe?

[-] Klear@quokk.au 32 points 1 month ago

Maybe don't run around with blades if you don't want to cut yourself and bleed out.

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[-] BootyEnthusiast@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 month ago

I want to bleed out not on the bench, but just below it, my back propped up by the wood.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

It doesn't have to be that way if you just leave John wick the fuck alone.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 month ago

The cinematographer in me is wondering how I would go about staging the scene without putting footprints in the snow.

[-] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Composite 2 shots maybe? You would have to be sure to map routes in and out of the scene and then make sure the action doesn't cross those routes.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah. That's about the only way that I can figure it could be done optically. Or else just fix it in post.

From a visual standpoint I know it lacks realism if we have a man bleeding out against the bench with no footprints or disturbance to show how he got there. But visually it looks better. I'd also costume the man in very gray colours, with almost the only noticeable color being the pool of red slowly spreading. Frank Miller-ish.

[-] yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

It's starts cloudy and when the fight ends it begins to snow. As the protagonist monolgues he and the cooling corpse of his rival bleed out in the accumulating snow. Bam no footprints, two slowly spreading blood pools, monologue, fade to white.

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[-] nostrauxendar@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Oh fuck yeah that's prime real estate

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 month ago
Raindrops on a lake
A universe of ripples
Center touching all
[-] grue@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

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[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Listen, periods are not as glamorous as you’ve been led to believe.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Picture it, though: You're a bad man and you know that one good deed won't change that, even at the cost of your life - but maybe it's enough to regain your soul. The wound doesn't hurt any more and you know that's a sign the end is coming but for the first time in years you feel at peace. Individual snowflakes are settling on your skin like chilly kisses as your eyelids get heavy.

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[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 13 points 1 month ago

Cause Allie this the one time men are allowed to get in touch with their feelings with no judgement. It's cinema to go out this way. Way better than dying behind the Arby's dumpster with your pants down. No one wants to die like that.

When you clock out in the snow, have a smoke or swig from a flask or have in your hand a well loved photo of a loved one. Also have no ID, make it a mystery. Go out like a true boss.

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[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago
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[-] Naho_Zako@piefed.zip 12 points 1 month ago

Ash, just go to the hospital please...

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[-] Saapas@piefed.zip 10 points 1 month ago

It's from Istanbul, apparently

[-] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago
[-] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's nobodies' business but the Turks

[-] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Been a long time gone, Constantinople.

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[-] copymyjalopy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Ooooh that's a good spot to die on.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

The seduction of the Noir.

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