How did he go from being a world-class assassin, to a burn out degenerate working at a bar?
How did he go from being a world-class assassin, to a burn out degenerate working at a bar?
Bills the boss, baby. Not him.
Killing was all he was good at but he found a new respect for life or at least felt guilty about what he did. Maybe he just didn't like it anymore. Either way he was reformed and if your only skill is murder there aren't many job opportunities beyond that.
Bill was always carrying Budd's ass and once they stopped working together his life fell apart.
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Killing the pregnant bride at the chapel changed him.
He’s not an emotionless sociopath that can kill on a whim. He clearly felt guilty about his previous life and punished himself with a shit job and shit life until someone he wronged came for him to put him out of his misery
>but he tried killing the bride
He was depressed but he wasn’t going to die laying down and making it easy
This is exactly how I've always interpreted it.
The only thing that contradicts it is that he seemed all too eager to get outta Dodge when Elle brought him the money.
he discovered 4chins
One day, he was just walking down the street, and he heard a voice behind me say, "Reach for it Mister!" He spun around and there he was face to face with a six-year-old kid. Well he just threw his guns down and walked away....little bastard shot him in the ass!! So he limped to the nearest saloon, crawled into a whiskey bottle, and he's been there ever since.