Sarah, Day, and the rape issue

[sandrock74]

I'm not a rape guru or anything, but I'd guess that most of the time there isn't much of a fight. The offender would be using some sort of weapon to threaten the victim into not struggling. That's not what she said! Just kidding....I just wanted to say it before someone else did.

[JDFP]

I think the thought of Steel raping Sarah is pushing it a bit. He's easily the most interesting character (outside of Rhodes, IMO) in the film that I really wish we had gotten to see more and come to know better. Maybe it was just the acting in the film, but I never saw Steel as just a "grunt idiot for fodder" in the flick. Even Rickles surprises with his whole comment of (paraphrase): "Maybe they're scared, they know what Frankenstein is going to do to them." While Johnson, Miller, et. al. were definitely nothing more than fodder in the flick, Rickles (and especially Steel) were much more. There's a couple of fairly touching scenes in the flick with Steel as well. The scene in particular where I think it's Johnson (one of the fodder guys) is saying: "Take me, Steel, I don't want to be like them!" and you can see the real pain and sorrow in his eyes. Sure, he's a dirty mouthed S.O.B. sometimes, but I think there's a great deal more going on up in Steel's brain than we give the man credit for in this thread. Second is the scene where Rhodes yells at Steel to shoot Sarah. The man was definitely pulled between following the orders (ethics aside in a situation where you may be the only survivors in the world) from his C.O. in shooting her and the hesitation and fear. How different of a flick would "DAY" have been if Steel had gotten some steel balls and shot Rhodes instead? I don't think Steel would have raped Sarah, while a few of the other soldiers may have considered it, I just don't see Steel going in that direction. Then again, maybe it's just Gary Howard's very astute acting that blows away the other fodder soldiers that give's that extra "oomph" to Steel. j.p.

[Mike70]

With a zombie horde outside and nothing to lose, not everyone's going to go all moral on us. indeed they wouldn't. i'd be the first to admit that i am a bit of a moralist. i think that there are absolutes in the way one acts and the way one treats other people; that they don't change depending on the situation you are in. this is not to say that i wouldn't kill someone in a survival situation if they became a threat to my life or the people around me. it simply means that i wouldn't act like an animal.

[blind2d]

Yep, so... rape... I personally think it's the worst, stupidest thing one could ever do. Worse than murder, and probably suicide. I mean, what reason could you possibly have to justify it? Nothing that holds water, I'll tell you that! I mean, everyone's got hands, pretty much, so... yeah, rape is just... it shouldn't exist. Way worse than cannibalism.

[Publius]

I mean, what reason could you possibly have to justify it? Nothing that holds water, I'll tell you that! I mean, everyone's got hands, pretty much, so... yeah, rape is just... it shouldn't exist. Way worse than cannibalism. In the old, old days it was often a method of appropriating an enemy's resources by force. Just like you might take his crops, land, or livestock. Still horribly unjust, obviously, but there's your practical answer. Everyone's got hands but you can't breed with 'em.

[clanglee]

I'm not a rape guru or anything. Quoted!!