So just to be clear, we’re NOT using the photo above as a reference. This article is about movies in which the hero SAVES the person they’re holding onto, and unfortunately Cliffhanger doesn’t get that distinction since the poor woman did fall to a very horrendous death in the beginning of the film. No offense, it was a decent movie, but Sly kind of, well, you know. Anyway, there’s almost always that scene in a movie when someone is about to fall and someone else is there to miraculously catch them and save them from dying, right?
Well, the roles have been reversed a few times over the years but there still moments when the guy does save the girl, not the damsel mind you, the girl. Yep, it’s a new age in which damsels in distress are usually just awesome women that need a little help now and again, but otherwise are more than capable of doing their own thing.
No patronizing, just facts. Here are some clips that show that everyone needs a hand sometimes.
5. Deadpool
So first Vanessa needs help, and then Wade needs help. See? It’s a compromise of sorts in which neither one of them is really in control but both of them are eventually saved. It might seem like a bit of a cheat and, well, it is, but it’s probably one of the most heroic things Deadpool has ever done so let’s just call it even and say that he did a good job.
4. Lord of the Rings
Sam wasn’t about to just let Frodo go. Would you? After that trek from the Shire to Mordor, all the stuff he had to go through, the fears he had to conquer, and the hard time he was given for being too small, too this, too that, and everything else. Sam had every right to demand that Frodo not let go, and he was actually the hero at this point in the story.
3. In The Line of Fire
What a dilemma. You really want to blow the guy’s head off for what he’s put you through and yet you still need someone to pull you up over the edge and he’s the only guy there. Decisions, decisions… I suppose it would be better to have some help to reach the top rather than just kill him and then join him only a few moments later. Clint’s old body probably wouldn’t have stuck the landing that well.
2. The Good Son
I won’t lie and say this would be an easy choice. On one hand you’ve got the son you now know is absolutely rotten and mean-spirited to the core, and on the other you’ve got the kind, innocent boy that’s looking for a family. The chances of Macaulay’s character ever getting better were slim to none, but it’s still a choice that most parents wouldn’t be able to make so easily.
1. The Matrix
Only in the Matrix is this possible. Well, the Matrix and any other action movie that wants to defy the laws of gravity and physics I suppose. It’s an awesome scene though and one that makes you really believe in Neo as being the One. Of course if you look really hard you can see the strap attaching the two stuntmen. But let’s not ruin the movie magic any further.
That nick of time timing is great, except when it misses. Sorry Sly.
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