He plays a hitman who mentors the son of one of his victims and teaches him how to be a “mechanic.” In the end, he is betrayed and murdered by the boy. The Mechanic is is one of my absolute favorite Bronson films. The brutal, sudden stop at the end of the fall and Bronson’s lethal ingenuity more than warrant this kill’s inclusion to the list. He ties the end of a wall-mounted fire hose to man’s neck and hurls him off a hotel balcony. Much like the scene from Cold Sweat, Bronson demonstrates a severe lack of understanding the proper use of safety equipment with this kill from The Evil That Men Do. While diving headfirst through a window, he executes a perfect shot, sending the villain hurtling into the next county. During the climax of the film he is perpetrating a one-man siege of the villain’s hideout and manages a killing stroke that is both effective and acrobatic. Majestyk, in which Bronson actually does play a melon farmer with whom you do not want to trifle. A meme has cropped up in the last year or so involving interchanging the words “melon farmer” for a far more recognizable obscenity, as in, “I’m a bad melon farmer!” The origin of this swear substitution happens to be Mr.
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