and at the end (spoilers!!) the surviving counterfeiter girl runs away with one of the theater girls and they're gay together now.... they drive off into the LA sunset and live happily forever π
in to live and die in L.A. (1985), they really queer-coded the villains... the counterfeiter gang are like theater gays and they hang out at their club where they do cabaret lol. the main counterfeiter guy, played by willem dafoe, is a former painter π§βπ¨
when the head cop ("chase") finally meets up with the counterfeiter ("rick masters"), rick makes a bunch of sexual innuendos towards chase in a sinister and playful manner π«’
out of all the iconic and memorable moments in aot these are the ones i would gladly sell my soul to experience once again what it's like to watch these scenes for the first time
the howard shore soundtrack in a history of violence is so funny. viggo has angry sex with his wife after blowing some guys' brains out and there's this gollum-ass music playing the whole time