Satisfaction Guaranteed: The 10 Best Comeuppances In Cinema - Part 10
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Satisfaction Guaranteed: The 10 Best Comeuppances In Cinema

There is a very simple reason for the high level of enjoyment that comes from watching a great cinematic comeuppance – it affords us the kind of satisfaction we rarely find in life. Who hasn’t found themselves up against the sort of arch-nemesis that belongs on the silver screen? In every audience-member’s own narrative, there is an embodiment of cold, calculating evil – plotting the demise of the more sympathetic and heroic characters in that personal story.
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Published: Jul 24, 2015 08:22 am

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Star Wars: Episode VI – Return Of The Jedi (1983)

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Much is made of Princess Leia’s ‘enslavement’ costume – the gold bikini worn during her time in captivity at the palace of Jabba The Hut – but the outcome of that situation is often overlooked.

Jabba The Hut is the abusive and powerful head of an organized crime syndicate and his palace is a place where the ring-leader holds court above a pit full of ravenous alien creatures – to which he throws anyone at random. His wall is adorned with Han Solo frozen in carbonite, and he has a scantily-clad Princess Leia literally on a leash when Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian attempt to come to the rescue.

We see Jabba The Hut pawing at the trapped Leia and remorselessly killing innocent bystanders. These horrid actions make it all the more satisfying when he orders the group of rebels to be thrown to the Sarlacc, but is throttled to death by Leia, using the very chain with which he has kept her prisoner.

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Sarah Myles is a freelance writer. Originally from London, she now lives in North Yorkshire with her husband and two children.
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