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| “ | And, before you get any half-baked ideas about calling in the cavalry, just remember we're gonna be watching you every step of the way. And we'll be listening on those scanners. And if we see anything unusual, an unmarked car or plane, one human being who even smells like a cop... well, you can just keep your f-ckng money, Jeff, and I'll send you pieces of her from time to time. | „ |
| ~ Warren Barr threatening Jeff Taylor. |
Warren "Red" Barr is the main antagonist in the 1997 film Breakdown.
He was portrayed by the late J.T. Walsh, who had also portrayed Frank Fitzsimmons in Hoffa, Charles Bushman in Sling Blade, Lt. Col. Matthew Markinson in A Few Good Men, Mayor Big Bob in Pleasantville and Martin Swayzak in Backdraft.
Biography[]
When Jeff and Amy's Jeep broke down while driving from Boston to San Diego. Warren offers both of them a ride after an unsuccessful attempt to repair the Taylors' car to bring them to the village. Jeff politely refuses, but he doesn't mind if Amy accompanies Red into town to call a tow truck. After a while, Jeff still manages to start the engine. He arrives at the village, but it turns out that Amy did not appear there and none of the locals saw her.
Red appears again later when Jeff is actively searching Amy. Being stopped by Jeff who recognizes him, Red denies anything and claims to have never taken any woman with him.
It is revealed he is the leader of a gang who wants to extort money from Jeff. Red orders him to bring them $90.000. Jeff does not have that amount of money, but for some reason thieves think the opposite (Jeff's wife once bought donuts, on which it was written about the lottery with the main prize of 90 thousand). The extortionists send Jeff to a local bank in a deserted town under threat of Amy's murder.
Later, after finding Red, Jeff sneaks into his truck, which arrives at Red's farm, where the attackers keep the valuables stolen from their other victims. Hiding in the attic of the barn, Jeff sees Red and his two thugs bagging Amy in the basement. Pulling Red's pistol from the glove compartment, Jeff attacks the bandits in Red's house, much to his wife's surprise. Billy manages to escape, and Jeff frees Amy and locks Red with his family and accomplices in the same basement. Unfortunate, Red is released ny one of his men and he pursues the couple with his truck. Finally, Jeff fights Warren on his rig and then Warren falls on the ground near a highway. Jeff then starts up his pickup along with Warren's stuck big rig and it crashes onto Warren, killing him.
After Warren dies, Amy and Jeff kiss each other after surviving Warren's atrocious kidnapping.
Personality[]
At first, Warren appears as a polite, friendly, helpful and normal truck driver. It soon reveals all this as a facade. He turns out to be a sociopathic, cruel and despicable gang boss. He's a serial killer who kidnaps and kills innocent people only for money. Despite being sociopathic, Warren is a very calm man and does not panic, not even when Jeff holds his family at gunpoint or when he's at Jeff's mercy.
Despite all of this, he seems to genuinely love his wife Arleen and young son Deke. For example, he taught Deke how to use a gun if Arleen is attacked.
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Trivia[]
- This was the third time J.T. Walsh starred in a film with Kurt Russell. The first being Backdraft, the second Executive Decision and this would be one of his later films until he died in February 1998. Breakdown was Walsh's last theatrically released film while he was still alive before his passing the following year.