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Despite being one of the supposedly honourable "old barrio crowd", Pachanga had become an opportunist, motivated by money alone. This is why he double crossed Carlito, his friend of many years.
Benny Blanco realised that Pachanga had no loyalty and would probably wack him out if there was some benefit to Pachanga, monetary or otherwise, in the future. He just used Pachanga to find out Carlito's whereabouts on that particular evening (Grand Central Station). After this, Pachanga was of no real use to him and represented a potential liability for the reasons I mentioned - in Benny's mind the simplest way to wrap things up was kill Pachanga too.
It may have also been payback for when Pachanga roughed him up at the night club earlier on in the movie.
True, you don't learn Barlow's exact origins, however, the book does provide some interesting snippets of information on his background:
- At least 2000 years old (he mentions being around when Christianity was "young").
- Posed as an Austrian noble man with the surname "Breichen" during the mid 20th century, but was more likely a native of Eastern Europe.
- Fled from Germany to the UK during the late 1930s. During his time in England, he teams up with Richard Throckett Straker, son of a Mancunian cabinet maker.
I hope the new film stays true to the source material and perhaps provides some flashbacks from Barlow's past to flesh him out a bit more.
I was quite underwhelmed by Midnight Mass. I wish they had developed the head vampire a bit more instead of just portraying him as a screeching winged fiend. Admittedly, Barlow in the 1979 version was similarly one dimensional, but at least you had Straker (played with appropriately understated menace by James Mason) to add some depth to the proceedings.
Looks very interesting! Had no idea about this. Thanks for the recommendation.
I think jump scares have their place (the 1979 miniseries also had it's fair share - i.e. Barlow popping up out of nowhere to attack Larry Crockett et al). It's total reliance on jump scares that bothers me (e.g. Anabelle movies and The Conjuring sequels).
Ahh yes, who can forget Pastor John Groggins preaching to be Little Misses' Thursday Night Bible Class.
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