But given he's already been shot he really doesn't have much of a choice - so his defiance comes from both an unwillingness to die and a bitter acceptance of it. In the scene, Lyons' character Lawrence is obviously reluctant to obey Derek's commands to put his teeth on the curb. That to me was the crux of the character." The sounds that you hear while Lawrence has his teeth on the curb is me trying to articulate that you can't kill us all. So even up to the last moment, he doesn't go down willingly. "The truth that you hold in your mind is that somebody is killing you because of the colour of your skin. Revealing exactly where such racist, hateful rhetoric leads: a heinous act of violence that shatters the lives of everyone - including its instigator. Instead, Derek's mercilessly savage murder of Lyons' character is meant to be an expedient definition of just how far off the deep end he is. Similarly, there's so much egregious violence and vile racism espoused in "American History X" that it can't just be there for its jarring value, as that would just contribute to normalizing such images and ideologies. Here it was thriving, being cultivated in '90s Southern California by men like Norton's character, the muscular and charismatic Derek - a portrayal itself that sometimes inadvertently glorifies the man he was before he's shown the error of his ways. One of the reasons the film was so controversial and subsequently praised when it was released was it dispelled any myths that extremist racism was fringe or unorganized.
So the scene itself needed to be so brutal that it told you what you needed to know about him in a fairly economical way."
"It occurs fairly early in the movie, you haven't really gotten to know Edward Norton's character yet.
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