FREN 1171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gambling, Video Lesson, Contract Killing
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Support your position with specific references to the two films. It"s clear that to melville, the characters cannot lie strictly on a single side of the spectrum, as both of our protagonists from. Bob the gambler and the samurai present themselves with an honorable display of doing what they do best without betraying their ideologies. Take bob the gambler as our first example. Bob, as we have seen, is a former bank robber and convict who now lives his life as a gambler. As retribution , the world presents bob with a strain of back luck, which leaves him nearly broke. This causes him to plan a heist and steal million from a casino in deauville. It would be fair to say that bob is a criminal, and is far from what we may consider a good guy . Despite this, melville shows us that bob is not actually all that bad.
