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in the background is a small Church building and it is where Luke will have his climatic showdown with both God
and man.
Cool Hand Luke - Luke is captured and returned again to the prison
camp where he receives two sets of leg chains and an unbearable
amount of work and harassment from the prison staff - It appears that
after all of the hardship that Luke has been broken - Luke has
appeared to have 'gotten religion' the kind of conforming obedient
religion that one man seeks to place over another
Now the obedient Luke is reduced to every humiliation at the hands of both the prison guards and his fellow
prisoners. But not for long as Luke is immediately on the run again and this time his friend Dragline joins Luke in
the escape. In the dark of the night Luke and Dragline near the small farming community where Luke cut his chains
in the previous escape attempt. Dragline scouts the road and tells Luke that they have it made and can escape on to
every imaginable pleasure. Luke declines to go with Dragline saying "I've done enough world shaking for a while"
and going his own way Luke passes then enters into the small Church to have another conversation with the Old
Man (God).
Cool Hand Luke - Luke talks with God - Luke assumes that all of his
previous attempts at reaching God have failed - But just in reaching
back to the previous 'talking to myself' scene where Luke was
shouting to God in a rainstorm Luke had told God "Let me know you're
up there Old Timer (God) love me, hate me, *kill me just let me know
you're up there" - And now God in His goodness and kindness is about
to let Luke know that He has had Luke in His loving hands all the time
Within minutes of Luke's seemingly failed attempt at reaching God the small Church parking lot is filled with police
cars and his friend Dragline enters into the building to talk Luke into surrendering proclaiming "maybe they will
even give us our old bunks back." Luke realizing the seriousness of the situation walks over to the window and
using the Warden's own iconic words says "what we have here is a failure to communicate." The guard called no
eyes again does his talking with his rife and quickly responds by shooting and wounding Luke in the neck. The
prison staff rejects an offer to take the badly wounded Luke to a nearby hospital ensuring Luke's death and as the
car pulls away the ever foreboding red light appears assuring the viewer that Luke has passed from this life. Had
God not taken Luke's life at that moment as Luke had given God an open invitation to do, what would be his
condition mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually after yet another session with the skilled prison staff? It
would have been a Luke much different from the Luke God made and loved "You, made me like I am" and God did
make Luke, in part like he was though sin also has a part in every person. The scene concludes with the smiling face
of Luke and indeed it is a smile of a man who has overcome all the odds and perhaps it is the smile of a man that
knowingly overcame this world and entered into the joy and presence of God in Heaven.
Cool Hand Luke - Occult symbolism - The movie is stuffed with
imagery, innuendo and outright occult symbolism
At the end of the famous egg eating contest a self-sacrificed Luke lays sprawled on top of the table in the obvious
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