Brutality Character in Jack Reacher Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher

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3.2 Brutality Character in Jack Reacher Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher

Reacher is a former Major in the United States Army Military Police Corps . He was born on a military base in Berlin on 29 October 1960. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he served 13 years in the Military Police, during which time he became part of a fictional military police unit, the 110th Special Investigations Unit, formed to handle exceptionally tough cases, especially those involving members of the U.S. Army Special Forces . He received many military awards during his career, including the Silver Star , the Defense Superior Service Medal , the Legion of Merit , the Soldiers Medal , the Bronze Star , and a Purple Heart for wounds sustained in the bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut in 1983. Since leaving the Army, Reacher has been a drifter . He wanders throughout the U.S. because he was accustomed to being told where to go, when to go and what to do for every day of his life from military childhood to military adulthood. He also felt he never got to know his own country, having spent much of his youth living overseas on military bases and at West Point. He usually travels by hitchhiking or bus. As a drifter, the only possessions he carries are money, a foldable toothbrush and, after 911 , an expired passport and an ATM debit card . Universitas Sumatera Utara 12 Regular references are made to the fact that Reachers given name is Jack, that it is not a nickname for John, and that he has no middle name. His military record officially refers to him as Jack none Reacher. From the time he was a boy, his family, even his mother, called him simply Reacher, an affectation that has stayed with him, but was never given to his brother www.imbd.com. Richard Jenkins as Rodin Rodin has the uncanny ability to know what time it is, at any time of the day, without referring to a clock. He often uses his internal clock as an alarm, enabling him to wake up at any time he chooses. He sometimes uses his human metronome ability to countdown and calculate during time-related situations. Rodin is highly skilled at fighting, enhanced by in-depth technical and military knowledge. He has experience and skills from various martial arts, although he is not an expert in any particular style. Rodins favorite techniques include elbow strikes , uppercuts , and headbutts . His experience, skills, knowledge, and strength aid him in fighting as he is sometimes stronger than his opponents but often matched with similar or larger enemies. As revealed in Nothing to Lose , Rodin hates confronting an opponent armed with a knife, believing that he has no particular talent for it. He mentally plans his fights using physics in a scientific calculating method. He knows how to break a persons neck with one hand and kill someone with a single punch to the head or chest. In a fight against a 7 ft 2.1 m, 400 lb Universitas Sumatera Utara 13 180 kg, steroid -using thug, Reacher lifts his opponent into the air and drops him on his head. He once reflected when a fight was about to start that he could defeat his opponent because his foe would be focused on the tactical victory [whereas Reacher] lived to piss on the other guys grave. Reacher placing greater importance on winning than on how he will win. Rodin is a skilled marksman . Throughout the novels, Rodin has shown great skill in the use of various types of firearms. In addition to being the only non- Marine to win the U.S. Marine Corps 1000 Yard Invitational rifle competition , he also won the U.S. Army Pistol Championship and served as a pistol instructor. In One Shot, Rodin uses his enhanced intelligence with advanced technical and military knowledge during a long range shooting scene slowing and counting his heartbeat while calculating wind, humidity, trajectory, speed, energy, and force www.imbd.com. Dylan Kussman as Gary Gary wants to keep a low profile, having been transferred for assaulting a warder. He meets and befriends Archer, an eccentric and intellectual inmate intent on using non-violent means to cause as much of a nuisance to the staff as possible, and is informed his reputation is already known; Banks, the current Daddy the inmate who “runs“ the Borstal is seeking Gary for a fight. Universitas Sumatera Utara 14 Gary struggles to settle into the dormitory, and after having watched the timid and bullied Davis be attacked by Banks, is eventually beaten by Banks and his friends in an unprovoked attack. Gary eventually gets his revenge on Banks. In the films iconic scene, he uses a makeshift cosh from a long sock with two snooker balls inside to beat Bankss crony, then confronts Banks in the bathroom and replaces him as the “Daddy” of the ward. gary later acquires power over the adjacent wing of the borstal by administering a vicious beating to the adjacent wings Daddy. Life improves for the inmates under Gary, with victimisation of younger, weaker prisoners prevented, along with racially-motivated violence. Gary gains status with the warders. He persuades them to move him from the dormitory to a single cell in return for an agreement to be responsible in his status as a natural leader. Goodyear offers Gary a position of leadership in the borstal to help him develop his leadership skills www.imbd.com.

3.3 Brutal Scene in Jack Reacher Novel