For some reason, Leo's death always seemed to pack a real emotion wallop with me. Not the first shot, but the moment when he is laying on the floor trying to raise his gun at Caan, and gets the fatal bullet and let's out this horrible scream as the walls are painted with his brains.
Anyone else feel this death was hard to watch?
I think it was overdone frankly. Which is too bad. Prosky was totally convincing as a nasty mobster.
And no one is actually thrown backward by a bullet. Not in reality anyway.
If that were the case the person who fired the bullet would be thrown back too. But this is just movie BS anyway.
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Not really. Ever poke a person in the chest hard with just your index finger ?
Depending on their stance and whether they see it coming has a lot to do with how far they travel, how hard they hit the wall etc., or if they have a chance to 'recover' and remain upright.
Also, the bullet has no resistance leaving the barrel - the barrel is cut to close tolerance so as to be as effective as possible in insuring the bullet travels down it as smooth as possible. When the bullet hits you in the chest it experiences resistance. At the speed the slug is traveling to come to a flat wall like a breast plate, skull etc., theres gonna be some 'push'. How much a person is offset from their standing position has partly to do with how balanced/off balance they are when hit. boxers lean forward with their feet flat and apart.
IIRC, this guy was on the floor so,in this particular situation you're probably right - I forget Leos exact position and don't remember him reacting much but I was also distracted by some one at my door when this scene went down.
Not very articulate of me here but I'm in a hurry...hope you at least get the idea...
Ever have a friend sit on the couch and hold them there with just your straight index finger in the middle of their forehead ? See if they can get up - near impossible.
All the deaths in the shootout were a little over dramatic...not that it ruined the movie or anything, but it was straight from a silent cowboy movie.
shareNo. Leo murdered Barry to spite Frank, and then threatened to prostitute Jessie and murder Frank's entire family. It was good watching him get killed.
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But you are forgetting that bullets don't throw people backwards at all.
sharea friend of mine related a story to me of his father in law who was accidentally shot in the chest at almost point blank range with a shotgun at home. he didn't move backward at all. he simply fell to the floor and died.
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Leo is dumb.
I don't think the last shot was a head shot....it was a chest shot and the bullet went through him causing that blood spray on the wall behind him....I thought the scene was pretty cool since Leo was a scumbag.....Funny, how there was no blood in the scene when he shoots that one guy in the street, but there is blood in the scene where he shoots the Farina character...it shows him bleeding from the shoulder/chest area when he gets up after being shot....shoots Frank who has a bulletproof vest....then Frank puts another 2 .45 caliber bullets into him.
RIP bad guys....those .45 bullets are pretty strong.
Thanks for titling the post "leo's demise" for all the people who haven't seen it. How thoughtful of you.
shareAgreed. Although obviously a terrible person its still hard to watch him yelp in pain like some helpless wounded animal. I actually think thats the most disturbing death scene Mann has filmed.
shareI first saw it as a kid at about 3am. The ending when Leo dies scared the *beep* outta me! I think I fell asleep and missed most of it though the very first time I saw it...:)
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