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The IceThe 1999 cult classic Boondock Saints has an unforgettable scene about halfway through the movie where the FBI agent (played by Willem Dafoe) hot on the Saints’ trail comes across a bullet-riddled crime scene and begins to give a play-by-play reenactment of what happened. (I’ll spare the intermediate details, but it involves a stun gun, a whole lotta bodies dropping, and some badass slo-mo shooting.) The real magic is in Dafoe’s final monologue where he (incorrectly) relives what the Saints were met with when leaving the crime scene:They exited out the front door. They had no idea what they were in for. Now they’re staring at six men with guns drawn. It was a fucking ambush. This was a fucking bomb dropping on Beaver Cleaverville. For a few seconds, this place was armageddon. There was a firefight! [There then proceeds to be a massive shootout between the Saints and their assailant.]Dafoe was accurate except for one thing: it wasn’t six men, it was one. One guy did what an FBI…

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