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Originally Posted by HarryT
Tara always strikes me as a spoilt brat, though, I'm afraid  . |
Very much so.
That's what makes it fun; she could probably wipe the floor with the bad guys if she could be bothered. (Something I wouldn't mind added in the movie version when, hopefully, they get that far.)
I distinctly remember the scene were Gahan is furiously fighting off a crowd of baddies, fighting for his life, and she's calmly critique-ing his technique in her head.
Let's face it, by then Burroughs was probably as tired of the pristine damself in distress cliche of the genre as we are.
That's one of the things I love about THE RIDER.
One of his "lesser" early works that is maybe a half inch from a modern black comedy. Pretty much a fractured fairy tale. The Prince is a cad, the princess is spoiled, the american heiress is a wimp, her mother is a terror, and the villain is refreshingly honest: he just wants easy money.