People who have seen as many movies as I have have seen a lot of movies, which is about how many I've seen.
A lot of action/history movies have a scene when the Bad Guy is pointing a gun or a death ray or a live fish at the Good Guy, and he's about to kill the Good Guy, and the Good Guy can't do squat about it. Here, the Bad Guy usually says something like "any last requests?" This is where the Good Guy goes wrong. Most of the time, he survives the Bad Guy via some Deus ex machina from his Good Guy Friends, who have decided to wait till the last minute to save him, just to see whether or not he'll wet his pants. But he wouldn't even need Good Guy Friends if he answered the Bad Guy the right way.
If I was captured by a Bad Guy who was about to shoot or behead me, and he asked me "any last request?" I'd say something like, "don't kill me." I think there's a law that says that a persons last will and testament has to be obeyed, so the Bad Guy would have to not kill me, or risk getting in trouble with the law.
Another way of escaping execution is called Putting the Bad Guy Off by Saying Something Weird. Take Dirty Harry. I haven't actually seen that movie, but I have seen the "do you feel lucky, punk?" bit. So Dirty Harry is pointing his gun at the Bad Guy, and he says "do you feel lucky, punk?" and then the Bad Guy says, "wait, don't shoot yet, I have to pee." Then while Dirty Harry is processing this sentence and wondering how it's at all relevant to the present situation, the Bad Guy pokes Dirty Harry in the eye, causing Excruciating Pain, which gives the Bad Guy a chance to escape.
The most common way of Escaping Bad Guys in movies is called Diversionary Tactics, but these don't always work. When the Bad Guy's about to punch you, look over his shoulder, point and say something like, "what in the world can that be?!" or "wow it's the Goodyear Blimp!" or "oh my good gracious me, look at that! I can't explain it. you'll just have to look over there for a while." or "wow, hey Biff, what's THAT?" or "Buzz, look an alien!" or, if you're lazy, just "look!" If your Bad Guy is a Brainless Imbecile, you don't even have to say anything, just point. This is usually what Batman and Robin do when they're beating the snot out of the villains, and it works every time.
It's a difficult move to pull off, though. You have to sell it. First off, you can't be looking at the Bad Guy while you're pointing at Something over his shoulder. Second, you have to get the timing right. If he's right in the middle of a sentence while he's giving a long speech about why he's such a Bad Guy for the benefit of the audience, then he won't see it coming, because when he's cocky enough to give the Bad Guy Speech, he thinks he's got you cornered and doomed, so he's not too worried about any resistance from you, and any move you make will throw him off. But if you're engaged in hand-to-hand combat, he's going to be watching your every move and is on the lookout for attempts to escape, so it actually works better when the Bad Guy has a gun, or a jar full of Poisonous Tarantulas.
But whatever you do, when a Bad Guy has you cornered, never ever ever under any circumstances at all, no matter what, in any way say "you'll never get away with this. I know what you're up to and I'm calling the Police." The first thing a Bad Guy thinks when he hears this is, "oh, rats. This dude knows what I'm up to, and he says he'll call the police. I think I'll shoot him before he calls the police. That way, he won't be able to call the police, and the police won't catch me. har." And then he kills you, and then you're dead. It's very embarrassing when you get to heaven, because while you're socializing with the angels and saints and everybody swapping death stories, and you tell them all that you died because you told the Bad Guy that you knew his plan and were going to call the cops while he was pointing his gun at you, then all the angels and saints just think you're an idiot. And it sucks, because then you have to spend All Eternity with everybody thinking you're an idiot. You'll become a social outcast and wish you were dead, so don't do it.
That's all I got to say about that.
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