The Ending (spoilers)
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Get Carter
Godfather01 — 19 years ago(April 05, 2006 09:58 AM)
Did u expect the ending, that the main character would die. How did u feel when u first saw the movie
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PamerEldritch — 19 years ago(April 09, 2006 12:46 PM)
If you look carefully at the beginning of the film when Jack is on the train heading for Newcastle one of the other passengers in the compartment is the assassin who ultimately kills him. The implication of this is that his bosses knew what he was going to do and were quite happy to let him kill these people, presumably because it suited them, but that they couldn't let him live afterwards. His death was, in these circumstances, ineviatble.
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pogo_sport — 19 years ago(April 17, 2006 05:02 AM)
Also even though this has been mentioned on the other boards, if you look closely also in the scene mentioned by the poster above, the front page of the newspaper the assassin is reading mentions something in regards to the police were expecting a gang war. So taking in all of these facts I kind of did expect Jack to get killed. Definitely not by the assassin with the "J" ring, but yes I did expect him to die. I mean as much as I (and others I'm sure) really enjoyed seeing him get revenge for his brother Frank, let's not forget Jack Carter was a badman. He was stone cold killer, most situations involving people such as Carter very rarely end in happiness.
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taffy_turner — 19 years ago(July 21, 2006 04:44 PM)
Filmed in Derbyshire wasn't it and there's images posted on the net of the locations used then and how they appear today and the coal truck cable car system that was dumping coal into the sea is long gone now apparantely as the mine closed years ago.
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rochelle-rochelle — 13 years ago(November 23, 2012 06:09 PM)
If you look carefully at the beginning of the film when Jack is on the train heading for Newcastle one of the other passengers in the compartment is the assassin who ultimately kills him.
OMG!! Totally going to rewatch it. Just watched it for the first time today. Wow! I love finding out stuff like this online!! Also thanks for the other tidbits people posted above. Wow. Thank you!!!!!!
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wangying1856 — 19 years ago(May 12, 2006 09:26 PM)
I didn't expect him to die at the very end, I thought it was possible, but the way he was killed I did not expect, just as he had got his revenge and was about to throw away the gun he gets hit, pretty powerful moment. He was a character whom I hoped would make it through alive and get to south America but he was a killer too. I think the ending was the price the character must pay for the life he lives.
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m_antonioni — 19 years ago(June 20, 2006 09:54 PM)
A character Michael Caine played in a movie a couple of years earlier than this one, in which the character is also a criminal, also dies at the end of the movie. So getting killed at the end was part of the Caine mystique in this period.
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taffy_turner — 19 years ago(July 26, 2006 06:44 PM)
He's the assasin hired by the big boss in Newcastle to get/kill Carter. He's also in the same carriage of the train that takes Carter to Newcastle at the start of the film.
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taffy_turner — 19 years ago(August 16, 2006 05:04 AM)
But if he had survived, what would he have done next? He couldn't have gone to South America with his girlfriend (Britt Eckland) as their little fling had been rumbled. Plus I think Carter had surely flipped his lid after all the killings he'd just carried out?
Anyway I guess his death was how the book was originally written and it's just another case of morals and crime not paying, but how come the other hit man gets away scott free though? Perhaps he'll get his come-uppance at a later date?
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thesnowleopard — 17 years ago(August 02, 2008 12:39 AM)
Anyway I guess his death was how the book was originally written and it's just another case of morals and crime not paying, but how come the other hit man gets away scott free though? Perhaps he'll get his come-uppance at a later date?
Of course. If Carter, whom we like, has to die because he's a killer, how much more so his assassin whom we want to see die? He probably got whacked in the upcoming gang waror maybe his bosses had him killed once he'd done the job for them (a nice little irony there). But either way, it would make no sense in the moral universe of the film for the assassin to live a long, healthy life and die in bed.
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bodegg — 18 years ago(June 07, 2007 01:04 PM)
Wasn't really that difficult though was it? He could have mirrored Carter's walk along the beach as he was on the clifftop. Carter had no reason to believe he was going to be topped there and then, although he would have realised he would be next. The assassin is a professional. He stalks his prey (train carriage at the start?)and travels light. As Carter had done a lot of physical exertion he would be slower than the killer making it easier to set up a shot. Carter was strolling along, laughing, totally distracted and then stood still while he thought about throwing the gun ito the sea. Bags of time. Don't forget the whole assassination thing was devised for the film, it's not in the book!