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Peter Hicks
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Posted: 20 April 2024 at 5:15pm \| IP Logged \| 1	post reply

That sounds like the scene near the start of the movie when Yul Brunner is the only man in town willing to take the dead body of a visible minority man to the local cemetery for burial (the townsfolk want an all white cemetery). Before the hearse wagon gets rolling, Steve McQueen climbs aboard to literally ride shotgun, and he shoots various ambushers who want to stop the funeral as the wagon rolls to the grave yard.

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Posted: 20 April 2024 at 5:39pm \| IP Logged \| 2	post reply

Yeah, I think it was going uphill too. I wanted to say McQueen was the other guy but wasn't 100% (saw this for the first time maybe a dozen years ago now)... they were talking a lot while casually shooting targets to the sides.

Seven Samurai was such a great movie; I was geared up to enjoy this western version and that scene broke the spell. I have seen some kung-fu films with superpowered Chinese gods where I didn't care about the characters in a similar way... they were that bit too effortlessly magical, defeating/killing someone with great ease while not having to look at all. I'm more for Peckinpah or Leone when it comes to westerns. Still think Yul was great (scary) in Westworld however!

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Posted: 20 April 2024 at 7:43pm \| IP Logged \| 3	post reply

You should have stuck with it. There's a great scene later on that really plays to their fallibility. One of the bandits is riding away, having learned that the gunfighters are in town. James Coburn's character takes aim from a great distance and shoot the rider down. Horst Bucholtz's character tells him it's the greatest shot he's ever seen. Coburn replies, "The worst -- I was aiming at the horse!"

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Posted: 21 April 2024 at 1:50am \| IP Logged \| 4	post reply

If you want to see crazy gun play, I'l recommend one of Chow Yun-Fat's Hong Kong movies, Hard-Boiled.

Won't spoil anything, but the way he shoots the main villain absolutely could not be done in real life.

As for two guns, most heroes in John Woo movies use them. And Hard-Boiled is a John Woo movie.

Edited by Brian Floyd on 21 April 2024 at 1:58am

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Rebecca Jansen
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Posted: 21 April 2024 at 2:20am \| IP Logged \| 5	post reply

I'm not sure why but I just remembered a line in a really old Harvey Kurtzman comic... Blim! Blam! "I'm Two Gun Zilch and I'm on a tear!", or something to that affect. Gun + human = story!

Does that scene of Michael Corleone retrieving the gun from the toilets in The Godfather ever stand up though... I don't think that whole sequence can be topped, though maybe Tarantino comes closest with the multi gun stand-off (while it lasts) in Reservoir Dogs. Poor Nice Guy Eddie. :^(

Who did these kinds of scenes in U.S. comics? Probably Kurtzman or Kanigher/Kubert/Toth... couldn't be farther away than some of those '90s comics!

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Posted: 21 April 2024 at 12:00pm \| IP Logged \| 6	post reply

I'm usually going along for the ride on most of the far flung gun play, but "curving" the bullet in WANTED even had me rolling my eyes.

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