Death Wish (1974)

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"[This is actually part of a series that's been going on over at Working Dead Productions, my normal blogsite. The other two posts are about the novels Death Wish and Death Sentence, the basis of this Charles Bronson series. You can find them over there, by clicking the site name above, or by clicking the links I've embedded in this post, if you are so inclined.]The novel Death Wish was, as I stated in my review, spare and generally neutral about whether liberal turned vigilante Paul Benjamin was a good upstanding citizen pushed too far or a psychopath indulging his inner fascist. The movie, starring Charles Bronson, continues this neutrality, and in fact the film turned out to be one of the most faithful page-to-screen adaptations I've ever seen. There are a few changes here and there, but with a few exceptions they're all minor. Things like Paul's surname being changed from Benjamin to Kersey, and his job changing from an accountant to an architectural engineer ... " [More]

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